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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. The treaty ended the French and Indian War. -
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Proclamation Act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following the gain of the French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. The act proclaimed that you had to pay three pence per gallon of molasses. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies. The act said that printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed stamp. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce Parliamentary legislation. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid and agreeing to accept Parliament's right of taxation. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts were used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
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 within the towns of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable.
