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French & Indian War
The French and Indian war was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was faught between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by the military. -
Proclamination on 1763
The royal proclomation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 y King George 3 following Great Britian's aquisation of French territiory in North America after the end of the French and Indian war/seven year war, which forbade all settlements past a line drawn along the Appleation Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliment on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American Colonists and required them to to pay a tax on every printed piece of paper they used. Shoip's papers, legal documents, license, news papers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act wasd to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts was a series introduced into the English Parliment by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, it imposed on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported to the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones, and a group of British soldiers. A few colonists were killed and it led to a campaign by speech writers to make the citizenry mad. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the last chance in series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britian on her American colonies. The rule was ignited "powder keg" of opposition and resenment with American colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was to protest British Parliment's tax on tea. Some of the demonstrators dressed up as American Indians, ruined the entirre shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They threw all the tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punishement passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiencee in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
Britain's General Gage had a secret plamn, he would sent regiments of British soldiers quarterd in Boston, There arrival was Lexington where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord was where they would seize gunpowder. -
Declareation of Independance
The Declaration of Independance is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting. It announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independant sovereign states, and no longer part of the British Empire.
