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The Tea Act
An act designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
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Colonial Unrest
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Treaty of Paris
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Pontiac's Rebellion
War that began by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, Illinois and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in after the British victory in the French and Indian War. Rebeliion ended in July 25 of 1766. -
Proclamation of 1763
Made by King George III after Great Britain took over the French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. Established or defined four new colonies. -
Stamp Act
Act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
Outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. It was required that the colonies house any of the British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declaratory act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
The Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The Townshend Acts imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerabale Acts
A series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. The fifth of the Intolerable Acts series was related to Quebec was seen as an additional threat to the liberty and expansion of the colonies. -
The Continental Congress
Two groups of people from all over the 13 Colonies who came together to discuss liberty.