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Proclamation Line
The Procamation Line of 1763 was put into action to keep colonists from crossing into territory that wasn't their own. This gave other explorers and natives a wide berth. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the law that stated that placed tax on any paper originating from the printing press. There were many riots based around this, causing chaos all through the colonies. -
Declaration Act
The Declaration or Declaratory Act was what repealed the Stamp Act after international uproar. -
Townshend Acts
A series of events that placed tax on glass, paper, tea, lead, and paints that were imported from Britain to the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists gather and begin to protest/taunt British soldiers, eventually pushing the soldiers to the point of violence, causing a handful of colonist deaths and injuries. Also known as the Incident on King Street. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was simply when the British East India company was given a monopoly on American tea trade. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was the event that took place on December 16th 1773. As British soldiers arrived in the colonies with a ship full of tea, the colonists, who had disguised themselves as Mowhawks, shoved 342 crates of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable Acts were punitiv acts directed towards the colonists ias aftermath of the Boston Tea Party. They were the Boston Port Bill, which closed the Boston port, the Administration of Justice Act, which gave Britain the ability to change location after a jurytrial limited coloniel power to a certain degree. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was organized to communicate to the King and Parliament that the colonies were being opressed. All of the colonies save for Geogia sent representatives. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
On the night of Pril 18th, 1775, British soldiers marched to war with the colonies. Paul Revere made his famous ride, and so began the Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The seond continental congress was mainly a discussion of how to retaliate to the British military, and how to gain independance from Britain. -
Declaration of Independance
July 4th, 1776 was when the final draft of the Delaration of Independance was approved, gaining independance from Britain, although the document wasn't formally signed untill August 2nd.
