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French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was the North American theater of the worldwide seven years' war. The war was fought between the colonies of British American and New France, with both side supported by military. -
Proclamation of 1763
The royal proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britains acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of he French and Indian war / seven years' war, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the sugar and molasses act ( 1733 ), which was about to expire. -
Stamp Act
An act of British parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on news papers and legal and commercial documents. -
Townsend Act
The townshend acts were a series of acts passed , beginning in 1767, by the parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The 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. -
Tea Act
The tea act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britian on her American colonies. -
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, on December 16, 1773 -
Intolerable Act
The intolerance acts were the American patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from the Great Britain.
