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Proclamation of 1763
On February 10, 1763, the United Kingdom, Portugal and France
and Spain concluded the seven years of war.
After the treaty was signed, the people of North America were
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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. The preamble to the act stated:"it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the securing the same."
It is pushing some taxes to get money from sugar for British Government. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot and killed five people, leaving nearly 50,000 citizens protest, the British were forced to withdraw
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Tea Act
the act lowered the price of tea but required colonists to buy it from East Indian Company.
Implicitly agreeing to accept Parliament's right of taxation -
Boston Tea Party
1773.11.28 British merchant docked at Griffin Wharf, Dec. 16, Adams and other 60 disguised as Indian boarded the boat, all of 342 boxes of tea into the sea.
This led to the convening of the first main, conference and proposed a petition to submit the emperor and a bill to boycott British goods. -
Lexington and Concord
In April 1775, the British Massachusetts Governor Gage ordered a British army of 800 people to go to Concord to collect arms and fire. When a gun battle took place between the Lexington and the colonial militias, the British finally killed or wounded more than 240 people and flee the battlefield
Fired the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The Declaration announced no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown, also known as the Siege of Yorktown, or German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the Untied States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North American and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter.
