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Molasses Act
The Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. It imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum. The purpose of the Act was to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies.It was later amended by the Sugar Act of 1764. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War starts with the scalping of the French Envoy.The French and Indian War, a colonial extension of the Seven Years War that ravaged Europe from 1756 to 1763, was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. It took more lives than the American Revolution, involved people on three continents, including the Caribbean. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7,1763,by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, in which it ban settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchase. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act passed by the Parliament of Great BritainThe earlier Molasses Act of 1733,which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses,had never been effectively collected due to colonial evasion.By reducing the rate by half and increasing measures to enforce the tax,the British hoped that the tax would actually be collectedThese incidents increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British Parliament and helped the growing movement that became the American Revolution. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America,and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London,carrying an embossed revenue stamp.These printed materials were legal documents, magazines,newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. The purpose of of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Y -
The Townshend Revenue Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain.The acts are named after Charles Townshend.The Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act were the five laws.The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones. Ouch! About five colonists died during the fight. The presence of the Brithish troops in the city of Boston was increasingly unwelcome. The riot began when about fifty citizens attacked a British sentinel. A British officer, Captain Thomas Preston, called in additional soldiers, and these too were attacked, so the soldiers fired into the mob, killing 3 on the spot, and wounding 8 others, two -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.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. -
The Intolerable Acts of 1774
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. The Intolerable Acts consisted of five Acts. The Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, the Quartering Act, and lastly The Quebec act. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (not including Georgia) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Act by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.About 700 British Army regulars, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Patriot colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk and had moved most of them to other locations. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies (except Georgia) that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill.The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered heavy losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is 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. Instead they now formed a new nation--the United States of America. -
Delaware Crossing
The Delaware Crossing occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey on the morning of December 26.Planned in partial secrecy, Washington led a column of Continental Army troops across the icy Delaware River in a logistically challenging and dangerous operation.Washington surprised and defeated the Hessians. -
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