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the french and indian war was fought from 1754-1763 between the british and the french in north america. The treaty of paris 1763 ended this.....
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King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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British parliament passed the stamp act on march 5th, 1770. All American colonists were affected & required to pay taxes on everything.
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Local Governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.
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March 5th British soldiers in Boston began shooting & killed 5 men out of a group of American colonists.
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There was a direct protest in Boston by colonists for the tax on tea. They went into the ship and told the tea & dumped it into the Boston harbor.
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Colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London.
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Were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
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The first shot of the American Revolutionary War.
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Challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen.
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A series of acts like, tea paper & glass
