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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation by King George III which prevented the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Divide. -
Sugar Act
An act passed by British legislation attempting to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses into the colonies from the French and Dutch. -
Currency Act
An act preventing the use of any new colonial money and reinstating the use of British money. -
Stamp Act
an act that required most printed materials in the colonies to have a stamp that would be collected and exchanged for a tax. -
Quartering Act
An act that required the colonists to build or give up space for British soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
An act which stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts which placed taxed on various goods imported to America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers killed five men by opening fire on a group of American colonist dockworkers. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the implication of taxes without consent from the colonists, where protestors dumped large amounts of tea into the harbor that was imported by the East India Trading Company. -
Boston Port Act
An act that closed the port of Boston and demanded the colonists pay a large amount of money for all the tea destroyed in the Boston tea party. -
Administration of Justice Act
An act that esentially allowed British officials to get away with capital offenses in the colonies. -
Massachusetts Government Act
An act that gave the royally-appointed governor of Massachusetts lots of power that other colonist officials didn't have. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each of the colonies met in Philedelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts put in place by the Parliament as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first of many true battles fought between the American colonists and the British, beginning the Revolutionary War. -
Quebec Act
An act that gave land and religious freedom to the American colonies former enemies from the French and Indian War, but not to the colonists. -
Second Continental Congress
Delegates from each colony met again, raised the Continental Army, and created the Declaration of Independence. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
A battle in Massachusetts where the Americans were defeated during the Siege of Boston. The British later evacuated boston after realising that it was practically defenseless against the Americans. -
Declaration of Independence Ratified
The Declaration of Independence was a document written largely by Thomas Jefferson, which stated that the colonists were breaking away from England. This is when the document was made official. -
The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was a crucial victory for the Continental Army, boosting their morale and persuading the French, Dutch and Spanish to join them. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the battle in which the American colonists won the revolutionary war. Sandwiched in between French and American forces, the British surrendered to General Washington.
