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American revolution
The 10 most important events of the Revolutionary War -
French & Indian War
An expensive war that led to to the British taxing the American colonists known as The Seven Years War -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765 . The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper . -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain in North America the duties imposed were glass, lead, paints,paper and tea impounded into the colonies -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patroit" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, sticks and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed -
The Tea Act of 1773
The Tea Act of 1173 was an act of the Parliament 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 warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
The Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This in the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774 pushed the two sides closer to war -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patoits' term for a series of punitive laws 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 the Boston Harbor -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26,1774 in Philadelphia -
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
On the evening of April 18, 1775 Paul Revere was sent for by Dr.Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington,Masssachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them -
The Shot Heard around The World
ON the Night of April 18,1775 hundreds of British troops set off from Boston to Concord,Massachusetts, in order to seize waepons and ammunition stockpiled by American Colonist. On April 19,1775 the "shot heard around the world" was the first shot in the American Revolution. It is unclear who shot first. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements in the American Revolution
