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French & Indian War
French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theatre of the Seven Years' War that pitted British North American colonies against French ones, supported by Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had 60,000 settlers and the British 2 million.The outnumbered French relied on their native allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III made the Royal Proclamation of 1763 public on October 7, 1763. It happened after the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War and gave Great Britain land in France that was in North America. The Proclamation said that no settlements could be built west of a line drawn along the Appalachians. This area was set aside as an Indian Reserve. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street[1], occurred on March 5, 1770, when nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were verbally harassing them and throwing projectiles. Famous Patriots like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams called it "a massacre".[2][3][4] Britain had troops in Massachusetts Bay since 1768 to support crown-appointed officials and enforce unpopular Parliamentary laws. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty held the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, as a political and business protest in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] The Tea Act of May 10, 1773, was the target. This law let the British East India Company sell tea from China in the American colonies without paying any taxes other than those required by the Townshend Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
After the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed five punitive laws in 1774 called the Intolerable Acts. These laws punished Massachusetts colonists for their Tea Party protest of Parliament's May 1773 Tea Act tax. Britain called these laws Coercive Acts. They helped start the American Revolutionary War in April 1775. -
Shot Heard Around the World
The American Revolutionary War's first major military campaign was the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Americans won, and a lot of militiamen joined the fight against the British.[9] The battles took place in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, on April 19, 1775. They happened in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (now Arlington), and Cambridge. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States' founding document is the Declaration of Independence, officially The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America . The 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who met at the Pennsylvania State House, later Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, unanimously adopted it on July 4, 1776. The declaration tells the world why the Thirteen Colonies considered themselves independent sovereign states free from British colonial rule. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were an agreement between the Thirteen Colonies, which were now 13 states that made up the United States. They were the country's first set of rules for how it would be governed. The Second Continental Congress met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia from July 1776 to November 1777 to talk about it. On November 15, 1777, the Congress made up its mind about it. -
Treaty of Paris
On September 3, 1783, King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States signed the Treaty of Paris in Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War and recognising the Thirteen Colonies as an independent nation. -
Signing of US Constitution
On September 17, 1787, 39 of 55 delegates signed the new document, with many refusing due to the lack of a bill of rights. One delegate refused to sign because the Constitution legalised slavery.