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Building Colonial Unity

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  • Treaty or Paris

    Treaty or Paris
    Treaty signed at the end of the Frenh and Indian War. Britain gained all territory east of the Mississippi River;

  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    To pay for the war costs and the expenses of protecting their new territory, Britain created the Sugar Act. The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets to paper with a special stamp that was taxed.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Parliament said that the American colonies had to provide the British soldiers with housing.

  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act
    The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and siad Parliament' had the right and authority to pass any laws and they must be adhered to by colonies. Enacted at the same tiem the Stamp Act was repealed.

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    This was a street fight that got out of hand. Colonists were throwing, stones, and sticks, and in return in led to the British open firing and killing 5 people.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    To bail out the East India Company, Parliament said it didnt have to pay import taxes on its tea in the colonies. This affected the local merchants who couldn't compete with their price.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Angered by the Tea Acts, patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped340 chests of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride
    Paul Rever's famous ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

  • Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
    As punishment for the Boston Tea Party, 4 acts were established that limited the colnists rights, including closing Boston Harbor, forbidding town meetings, let British officials be tried outside of the colonies for a crime, and let british solider live in the colonists homes.

  • Continental Congress

    Continental Congress
    Colonial delegates meet to organize their opposition to the Intolerable