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These acts banned colonial merchants from shipping good to foreign countries limited which items could be shipped to the colonies. All of this happened for nine years.

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Under that law, a tax was placed on the importation of sugar from the French West Indies, forcing American rum distillers to buy more costly sugar from the American West Indies.

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The French and Indian war was a 7 year long war between Britain and France. Many Native Americans sided with the French because they treated the Native Americans more fairly. The fighting began in 1754, but the war was not officially declared until 1756. The whole entire reason they were fighting was for the control of much of North America. This war was apart of a larger war that was going on in Europe.

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The French lost the war, and the treaty of paris (signed in 1763) gave Britain control of Canada.

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It recognized the indians right to the land and did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made colonists very angry because they wanted to settle on the land and they did not want British soldiers to live among them.

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This act taxed anything printed on paper by requiring colonists to buy a stamp, or seal, for paper products.

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This act required colonist to quarter, or house and feed, British soldiers.

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These acts made colonists pay taxes on imported tea, glass, paper, lead, paint, and other items to pay for rising military costs due to the Quartering Act.

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Colonists began to shout insults and throw sandals at the soldier. Soon more soldiers arrived, and as the mob grew louder and angrier, shots were fired. This deadly riot resulted in five colonists being killed that evening.

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This act made the British East India Company the only company allowed to sell tea to the colonies.

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This was a protest by the American Colonists against the British government. They staged the protest by boarding three trade ships in Boston Harbor and throwing the ships' cargo of tea overboard into the ocean.

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These acts were an effort to make the colonists pay for the tea and to keep the colonist from planning other attacks. These laws stopped all trade between Boston and Britain, did not allow town meetings, gave Britain control of the colony of Massachusetts, and strengthened the Quartering Act. Since the port of Boston was closed, the trading of goods between the colonies also stopped which greatly impacted the economies of all the colonies.

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In 1775 the British government stopped ignoring the events which were leading to a war of independence. They were beginning to think that colonists were a serious threat. The members of the congress were so scattered throughout the countryside, so General Gage decided to destroy all the weapons and ammunition he had heard was stored in Concord, Massachusetts. Colonists had been busy preparing for the British forces. When the battle started Pitcairn ordered his men to surround and disarm the militia, meanwhile the militia were ordered to disperse. No one knows if it was a militiamen or a British soldier that fired the first shot. It doesn't matter whoever it was, because the British started shooting. They killed 8 colonists and wounded 10 more. After the war in Lexington, the British headed to Concord. They wanted to destroy all the weapons they could find at Concord. Which resulted in a battle.

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Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the British capture of the city.

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The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States.

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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia.

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The supreme law of the United States

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Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd US president sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to ask the French leader, Napoleon, to sell part of Louisiana . .(Including New Orleans to the United States)

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During this 2,000 mile ride, it would connect you from the Missouri River to valley in Oregon territory.

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President Andrew James signs the Indian Removal Act. This required Native American tribes to exchange their homelands east of the Mississippi River for land in Indian territory out West. This lead to the forcible removal to all who resisted. Known as the Indian Removal Act.

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President Andrew Jackson placed a Indian removal act, this was the trail for it.

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Back in the day there were 11 free states and 11 slave states. Now Missouri wanted to be the 23rd. Henry Clay decided that it would be fine for it to be a slaveholding state only if Maine was considered a state. During this the Mason Dixon line was made!

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This event was the beginning of the civil war, yet not one person died.

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From now on we can say enslaved people to are freed! No more slavery.

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A speech written by Abraham Lincoln made to dedicate the soldiers national cemetery.