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French and Indian War Start
French and India war The French wanted control over themselves and not to be controlled by the Indians. -
French and Indian War End
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The proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763The Proclamation of 1763 forbade expansion of the British colonies in America west of the Appalachian mountains,this land to be preserved for Native Americans to live in,unless new extensions were authorized and negotiated by the Crown. The colonists didn't like it because many of them - including George Washington - had designs to take this land for themselves. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act AN ACT for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and f -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts There people that help a town get new laws. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
The boston masarcreThe Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in -
Boston tea party
The boston tea party This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel -
Tea Act
[The tea act date](=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm)On this day in 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade. Because all legal tea entered the colonies through England, allowing the East India Company to pay lower taxes in Britain also allowed it t -
Intolerable acts
Intolerable Act The Intolerable Acts, also called the the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts, were a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. The fifth of the Intolerable Acts series was related to Quebec was seen as an additional t -
Lexington and Concord battle
Lexington and Concord battle The battle of Lexington and Concord was over their indepentdience from Lexington. The battle finished with the Concord getting their freedom and the Lexington giving up Concord -
Declaration of Independence was signed
Decloration of Independeance This is the reason we celebrate the 4th of July. America got their freedom on July 4th
