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Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, the British colonists in North America had plenty of reasons to be optimistic about their future as British subjects. The colonies’ militias, or groups of local men who organized to protect their town or colony, had proven themselves to be able fighters alongside British soldiers. This freedom to govern, however, was limited by King George III and the British Parliament. This royal proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763. -
Sugar Act-1764
Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian . -
Soldiers in the Colonioes 1765
he Continental Army consisted of soldiers from all 13 colonies and, after 1776, from all 13 states. When the American Revolutionary War began at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the colonial revolutionaries did not have an army. -
Articels of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades
