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Molasses Act
This was a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses. Parliment created this act to regulat trade by making british prodcts cheaper then those from the French Indies. The American colonists protested this act which was later repealed by the sugar act. -
Begining of the French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a war for control of the American terriotory, It was the fourth war between the French and British for colony possesion. The war lastednine years before ending. -
Proclomation Line
This line prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of an imaginary line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. -
End of the French and Indian War
After the British won the war, parliment expected the colonies to rerpay the war debt. King George decided to create the proclomation line. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon.The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. It ment the Americans could only trade with Britan.This caused an almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies -
Stamp Act
The act required that many printed materials in the colonies carry a tax stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.The Stamp Act met with great resistance in the colonies. -
Boston Masacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops. Brawls between soldiers and civilians eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. The soilders were tried and found guilty of manslaughter. The Boston Massacre is one of most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British acts and taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
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. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act recognized two basic rights of the predominantly French Canadian population, freedom of religion and the right to live under traditional French civil law. It also gave the governor and council at Quebec jurisdiction over the Ohio country. The colonists were outraged. -
Concord and Lexington
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. It was important to the early American government that an image of British fault and American innocence be maintained for this first battle of the war.
