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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian WarThe French and Indian war lasted for seven years. It was fought between the British and the French.Both sides were suppoted by military units and Native American allies. At the start of the was the French had 60,00 European settlers and the Brisish had about 2 million. The war debt was the reason that Parliament started imposing taxes on the colonists. -
The Proclomation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763The Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III. Following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian. Which forbade all settlements past a line drawn by the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Tha Stamp Act was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on every paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice. -
The Townshend Acts
The townshend Acts The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, started in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain. The acts were named after Charles Townshend. The one who proposed the progam. The townshend lead to the Revolutinary war because Americans saw the taxtation as an abuse of power. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Many colonists were killed and it lead to a campaing by speech-writer to rouse the ire of the citizens. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy grew a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. It was when the taxes were high on tea. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable ActsThe Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
The Lexington and Concord
The Lexington and Concord Battle The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
The Declaration of Independince
The Declaration of IndependenceThe Declaratin of Independence was when a statement was adopted by the Constitutional Congress meeting in Phylidelphia. Which anounced the thirteen colonies then at war with Great Britain.
