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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Act 1660 added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's Act: ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England of other English colonies. -
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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was known as the seven year war, 1754-63. The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' war. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Proclamation of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mts. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a a modified version of the sugar and molasses act, which was expire. -
Stamp Act
The tax was imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt for the Seven Year War and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was were colonists had to provide the needs of soldiers and allow them to stay on you're house. Colonist had to provide the soldiers with what they wanted when they wanted even if they couldn't afford it. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for the revenue of the Stamp Act and Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
A series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5,1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing rocks, sticks, and snowballs, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speechwriters to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Committees of Correspond
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society. -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. -
Tea Act
Colonies had to pay a tax on tea. Britain made this act because the East India company needed money. -
Intolerable Act
Closed Boston ports limited town meetings trials only take place in Britain. Colonists were forced to let soldiers live with them. -
First Continental Congress
Sons of liberty set up a committee in each colony made up of Anti-Britain leaders. Paul Revere invited everyone to a meeting to Britain unified response. -
Shot heard around the world
The British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot and a melee ensued. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. -
Thomas Paines Common Sense
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. he plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
