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AR Timeline

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  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation of 1763
    It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Taxes

    Taxes
    The British Parliament put taxes on sugar and molasses and enforced tax collection.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    British soldiers shot and killed several colonists during a protest. The event was heavily publicized.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Protested against the taxes on tea.
  • Boston Blockade

    Boston Blockade
    an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774. It was one of five measures that were enacted during the spring of 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
  • Continental Congress

    Continental Congress
    A convention of delegates from a number of British American colonies at the height of the American Revolution, who acted collectively for the people of the Thirteen Colonies that ultimately became the United States of America.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.