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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. British and France was the countries involved. -
Proclamation Line 1763
After the British claimed the Ohio River Valley the Native Americans started fighting back for the land. These were made as a boundary to band settlement west of the Appalachians. Even with the ban in effect colonists continued to move to Native American lands. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act halved the duty on foreign-made molasses, and placed duties on certain imports. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a program that got colonies to pay salaries to the governors to show that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
This was the even when five British soldiers killed five men, and wounded six others. The people involved were started to gather a large group around the soldiers and harass then, until they were finally provoked to fire. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.The Boston Tea Party was a resistance movement of the Tea Act. This was because it went against their taxing rights. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, were a set of laws passed by British Parliament in reply to The Boston Tea Party. Many colonist saw these as violations to their constitutional rights and a threat to their liberty. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Kicked of the American Revolutionary War.
