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Proclmation of 1763
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris is the treaty that ended the French and Indian War. It stated that all of the French coloies went to Britian. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is one of the taxes the British made the coloinst pay. The Sugar Act taxed all products made with sugarr and sugar itself. -
Stamp Act
This Act was passed by British Parliament.
The new tax mislead all American colonist and made them pay a tax for every piece of printed paper they used. -
The Quartering Act
It was a inderect tax for colonist. Under law colonist had to give quarters, transportation, and foods for British soldiers. British soldiers protected colonist from the French, so they were forced them to accept the goods. -
Townshend Act
Passege of the Townshend Acts lead to colonial nonimportantion agreements. -
Boston Massacre
British soliders killed 5 colonists in Boston. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies to rally against the enforced heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. Colonist threatened the soldiers with throwing snowballs and rocks at them and daring them to shoot their guns. -
Intolerable Act
Five laws passed by the British Parliament. The colonist oppoosed to parliamentary rule. -
Tea Act
Parliment passes the Tea Act, leading to the colonists rebellion and started the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party
It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, against the tax policy of the Birtish government and the East India company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16,1773, after officials in Boston refused to return 3 shiploads if taxed tes into Biritan, a group of colonist boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from 12 British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774 at Capenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It had 55 members appointed by the legislatures of 12 of the thirteen colonies. It was unicameral ans it disbanded sometime around May 10, 1775. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
They were ordered to enforce Intolerable Acts, which British Parliament passed to punish Provine of massachusetts Bay for the "Boston Tea Party". -
The 2nd Continental Congress
All the delegates from the colonis met for the 2nd in Philadelphia soon after the American Revolution. At the Congress the colonist started to draft U.S Declaration of Independence.
