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French and Indian War (beginning)
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warThe French and Indian War lasted for seven years. It was between Britain and France due to Frances expansion into the Ohio River. The French and Indian War was very important to the American Revolution because the war dept was the reason why Parliament started imposing taxes on the colonists in the first place. -
French and Indian War (Ending)
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warThe French and Indian War lasted for seven years. It was between Britain and France due to Frances expansion into the Ohio River. The French and Indian War was very important to the American Revolution because the war dept was the reason why Parliament started imposing taxes on the colonists in the first place. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of The proclamation closed down colonial westward expansion. It led to the revolution because the law stated that people could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains, but settlers ignored it and moved west. After that, the British imposed new taxes to held pay for the French and Indian War. -
The Stamp Act
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americanrevolution/p/stampact.htmThe Stamp Act was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice.The Stamp Act, along with future taxes such as the Townshend Acts, helped push the colonies along the path towards the American Revolution. -
The Townshed Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods. It led to renewed protests in the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_boston_3.htmlThe Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists' desire for American independence. -
Tea Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act
The stamp act was a tax put on the Americans which stated that all papered products such as legal documents, playing cards, and newspapers. this was one of the many taxes the British placed on the Americans. all of these taxes including the stamp act, made the Americans extremely angry and was part of the cause of the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Intolerable Acts
http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. The Intolerable Acts closed Boston's port, stopped town meetings, and allowed for British troops to move into colonists' homes and forced the colonists to support them. -
Lexington and Concord
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The war kicked off the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
The Declaration of Independence announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation, the United States of America.
