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Signing of the Treaty of Paris
Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
A 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar increased taxes of coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. -
Stamp Act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets required to use watermarked or stamped paper on which a levy was placed. -
Viriginian Resolution
The Virginian assembly refued to comply with the Stamp Act. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declared that it has the right to tax colonies -
British troops arrive in Boston
They arrived in response to political unrest. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house. -
Tea Act
In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company. -
Boston Tea Party
An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists -
US Defeat at battle of Camden
The Revolutionary War Battle of Camden, South Carolina, pitted American forces under Major General Horatio Gates against a small British field force commanded by Lieutenant General. Charles, Lord Cornwallis. Despite numerical superiority, the Patriot forces suffered a humiliating rout, one of the worse defeats in American military history. -
Surrender of British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown
General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops ot Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. -
Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War
Negotiated between the US and GB, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. -
Adoption of the American Constitution
55 men attended the constitutional convention in Philadelphia that drafted the Constitution of the US. -
Constitutional Convention
Took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the US which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from GB. Cons
