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The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation declared by the British at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to appease the Native Americans by checking the intrusion of settlers on their land. -
The French and Indian War
he French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts were two British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1765 and 1774, that were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America. The 1765 Quartering Act made provisions for British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists. The 1774 Quartering Act was one of the series of Intolerable Acts passed as a reprisal to the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Boston Blockade
The Boston Blockade was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. It was a series of British laws referred to as the Intolerable Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1774. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. It was made to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protect in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence explains why the colonies should break away from Britain. It says that people have rights that cannot be taken away, lists the complaints against the king, and argues that colonies have to be free to protect colonists' rights. At the bottom of the document, the delegates sign their names.
