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Start of The French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-blood-of-the-french-and-indian-warThe French and Indian war started on May 28, 1754. The French and Indian war was the last and most important of a series of colonial conflicts between the British and American colonists. -
The End of The French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-french-and-indian-war-endsThe French and Indian War was also known as "The Seven Years' War." The Seven Years' War ended with the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htmThe end of the French and Indian War was a cause for a great celebration in the colonies. The Proclamation also established or defined four new colonies. -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfmThe new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American Frontier. -
Townshend Acts
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-actsThe Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass,lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray emparial expenses in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-massacreA mob of American Colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston and began taunting the soldiers on guard. The Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation. -
Tea Act
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-actThe Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britian on her American colonies. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of oppostion and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_PartyThe Boston Tea Party was intially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the tea in Boston." It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_ActsThe Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term of a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliment 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. -
Lexington and Concord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_ConcordThe Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge near Boston. -
Declaration of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which announced the thirteen American Colonies. Then at war the Great Britian regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states.
