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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Sven Years War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military unites from their parent countires of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of 60,000 European settlers, compared with 2 millionin the British North American colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 wase issued October 7, 1763, by King George lll follwoing Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of teh Fremch and Indian War/Seven Years War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along teh Appalachian Mountians. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament of 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 they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspaper, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, begging in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who porposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1700, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a sqad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and tghis led to a campaign bt speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The tea act was final straw in a series of unpoplular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was teh catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The BosotnTea Party also known as the Destruction of "the Tea in Boston" was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston,on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed 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 sea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American 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
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of tge British Empire.
