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End of the French and Indian War
The Treaty of Paris ended the war between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
Stopped the colonists from being expanding into the land that was acquired as part of the treaty of Paris (1763) -
Sugar Act
Modified version of the 1733 sugar act. Reduced the tax on molasses from 6 pence a gallon to 3 pence a gallon, but the new act had stricter enforcement and added more things to be taxed such as wine, coffee, lumber, and iron. -
Currency Act
The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to conduct trade. On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Grenville Acts
Grenville Acts pass parliament. These include multiple acts that raised the revenue to pay for the French and Indian War debts along with the cost of administering the new territories granted at the end of the war. They also increased the efficiency of the American custom system. The most rejected part was the Sugar Act. It increased duties on items ranging from sugar to coffee to textiles. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed and required the colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper used. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act goes into effect in the colonies which requires residents to provide housing for British troops stationed in America. Many do not agree with this act. The Quartering Act furthers ant-British sentiment in America. Many are angry by the passing of this act -
Declaratory Acts
An act to secure dependency in the Americas upon the parliament of Great Britain. Several of the houses of representatives in America have of late, against law, claimed to themselves, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes. -
Townshend's Acts
The Townshend's Acts were passed by the English Parliament after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They collected taxes from colonists by putting taxes on supplies and everyday materials. The colonists protested against the taxes. The Boston merchants again boycotted on English goods. The boycott decreased British trade and in 1770 most of the Acts were repealed. -
The Boston Massacre
Fight between a “patriot” mob who threw snowballs, stones, and sticks at a squad of British soldiers. This lead to the deaths of several colonists and la campaign by speech writers to stand up against the British -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of Great Britain's Parliament to impose a tax on tea and reduce the massive tea surplus of the British East India Company in London, a company in financial trouble. The Tea Act was part of a group of taxes imposed on the colonies by Britain called The Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
Intolerable Acts
The acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, a violent reaction to the British tea tax of 1773. At this point, the British made the fateful decision to tax the American Colonies. -
The first Continental Congress
Delegates from all 13 colonies, except Georgia who was fighting a native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military help, came together in Philadelphia and formed the first continental congress to organize a colonial resistance against Parliament’s Intolerable Acts -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
