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Pontiac's Rebellion
It was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris was a treaty signed by the British, French and Spanish, in agreement with the Portugese after Britain's victory over the French in the French and Indian War. This is the treaty that ended the French and Indian War. -
Proclomation of 1763
Was issued in october of 1763 and forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains. This occurred when Great Britain claimed French territory following the Frencha and Indian war. -
Sugar Act
When the Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733 was about to expire, the parliment passed another modified version of the Sugar Act. Under the Sugar Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
In 1756 the British parliment exacted revenue from American colonies by requiring stamps on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. WIth the colonial opposition that followed, soon an act was in place to help encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering Act
An act put in place by the British parliment in the local governments of the American colonies in an effort to proved the necesseties needed for the British soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, following the Stamp Act, that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the change and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme. -
Tea Act
An act passed that placed taxes on tea that would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty sneak onto British Tea Ships and dump cargo into Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
British response to the Boston Tea Party.
- Shut down Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for
-Took away Massachusetts right to self-govern -
1st Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonies send representatives to discuss the Intolerable Acts.
1st time colonies unite in one government action