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1763 procomation of 1763
This document was sent to the colonist by the king and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian mountains -
1764 sugar act
a trade law enacted by parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in British in north America -
1765 quatering act
a minimum of two acts of British parliament in the local government to American colonies to provide -
1765 stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. -
1766 repeal of stamp act
Asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies -
1767 townshend act/duties
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies -
1770 boston massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. -
1773 tea act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War -
1774 intolerable acts
harsh laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 they were meant to punish the American colonists for the boston tea party -
1775 lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
1775 battle of bunker hill
The British defeated the Americans although the Americans a huge part of the British forces -
1775 second continental congress
managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence
