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Early America
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Proclamation Line – 1763
This event issued on October 7, 1763, closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia. It was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies. -
Sugar Act – 1764
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 War. -
Currency Act – 1764
On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. -
Stamp Act - 1765
The Stamp Act was the first direct tax used by the British government to collect revenues from the colonies. -
Quartering Act – 1765
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Resistance Grows-1775
Colonists formed a secret resistance group called “The Sons of Liberty” to protest the laws. -
The Boston Tea Party-1773
This event was important because it fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America. -
First Continental Congress-1774
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Lexington And Concord-1775
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
Second Continental Congress-1775
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September and October of 1774.
