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Proclamation Act
This act was issued by King George III after the end of the French and Indian/Seven Years War. The act forbade all settlement past a line drawn down the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was passed by British Parliament for the purpoe of revenue-raising (dervived from the Molasses Acct). -
Stamp Act
This act was passed by British parliament and proposed a new tax on all printed paper used by the American colonists. This included legal docuemnts, newspapers and licenses. -
Quatering Act
The Quatering Act was passed for the purpose of soldiers having room and board in the American colonies. This act made the colonies responsible to find a place for these soldiers to stay. -
Stamp Act Congress
Congress formed from American colonists that convened to address what they figured was increased taxation and tyranny by the British. -
Declaratory Act
An Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain thta went along with the repeal of the Stamp Act, as well as the changing of the Sugar Act. -
New York legislature suspended
Caused through the Suspending Act, which prohibited the New York assembly from further business until it complieed the Quatering Act's finanical requirements. -
Townshend Acts
Act passed by the British which placed import taxes on British products brought by America. -
British troops occupy Boston
This action was caused by the British opinion that order neede to be brought into the colonies. This action backfired on them and actually contributed to Americas eventual independance. -
Boston Massacre
Considered a "street fight" which occured through the unwanted presence of the British in the colony. This massacre is considered a signla event in leading to the Revolutionary War. -
All Townshend Acts Repealed (minus tea tax)
All of the Townshend Acts, in exception to the tea tax were repealed on this date by British parliamnet in order to cut land taxes in the American colonies due to protests by the colonists. The tea tax stayed in affect. -
Committee of corrospondance formed
This committee was created in order to form action against Great Brittain rule. These committees formed from many different individuals that wanted to discuss the same common issue, the need for independance. -
British East Indian Company granted tea monopoly (Tea Act)
The purpose of the tea act was to bail the British Indian Company out financially, however the colonists saw it as a way to rasie revenue out of the colonies. -
Provoking the Boston Tea Party
Govenor Hutchinson was not favoured highly in the colonies after he was reported to have supported the Stamp Tax. So when he tried to articulate the position of the Crown in governing the colonies in AMerica he was quickly asked to be removed. -
"Intolerable Acts"
)Also known as the Coercive Acts.)The "Intolerable Acts" were passed by parliament in order to punish colonists for the events of the Boston Tea Party. It was an act of consequences for throwing a large tea shippment into the Boston harbour. A bill under this act was the Boston Port Bill whoch closed the Boston Harbour until the colonists paid for the lost tea. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was an act passed by parliament that benefited the colony by exoanding its territory farther south, however was an inconvience to Americans since its boundaries were being taken over by Quebec. -
First Continental Congress
The colonies presented the issue of defining an authority against Great Britain, which brought up the idea of creating a congress out of elected colony delegates. This Congress discussed and debated important issues for the well being of all the colonies. -
The Association boycotts British goods
The Congress cretaed The Articles of Association, which stated if the Britsh did not repeal the Intolerable Acts by December 1st of that year, they were going to start boycotting British goods in the colonies. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord were fought in the Province of Massechusetts Bay and were the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration declared that the 13 American Colonies now considered themselves newly indepednant sovereign states that were no longer ruled by the British.
