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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the French and Indian War with the British colonies as winners. It also marked the end of France as a power in North America. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies. Including: newspapers, pamphlets, wills, and even playing cards. -
Boston Massacre
Used as propaganda to help support the patriot cause. Only 5 colonists were killed. This was not a massacre. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to bypass colonial merchants and sell products directly to the shopkeepers. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the colonists settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians, and at midnight went onto one of the ships with in-coming tea. They tossed 342 crates of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a punishment from King George because of the Boston Tea Party. It closed Boston Harbor, kept food and other supplies from being delivered to Boston, town meetings were banned, and British soldiers when accused of crimes could be tried in other colonies, and colonists were forced to quarter soldiers as needed. The other colonies sent in food and other supplies to show their support for what they were doing. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was formed because the colonial leaders realized that they needed to join forces to work together for independence. 55 delegates met in Philadelphia to discuss problems with Britain. -
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell, and William Dawes went around the colonies to warn the colonists that were fighting that the British soldiers were preparing to fight. -
Lexington and Concord
When the redcoats reached Lexington there were 70 militiamen waiting for them at the town square with muskets in hand. When the fight was over 8 of the militiamen were dead. By the time the British Troops reached Concord most of the gunpowder had already been moved. They destroyed the rest of the supplies and started back to Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
Many well respected men were included in the Second Continental Congress such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Hancock. John Hancock was the president of the Second Continental Congress, and the congress unanimously elected George Washington as the army's commander. -
Declaratory Act
Came out the same day the Stamp Act was repealed. It stated that the taxing authority was the same in the colonies as Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were various acts that made the colonists boycott more British goods.
