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Colonial Unrest
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Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris concluded the French British war of seven years. Also known as the French and Indian War. It was signed by the representatives of Great Britain and Hanover on one side and by the French and Spain on the other side. The treaty renounced to all Britain all mainland of North America east of Mississippi. Not including New Orleans. -
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Potniac's Rebellion
The Indian tribes of the Ohio Valley were surprised and mad by the defeat of their French allies in the French and Indian War; the natives were in possession of their homelands and had little feeling of loss during their association with Frenchmen. When word arrived in the Ohio Valley that the tribes were expected to turn their loyalty to a new European monarch, George III of Britain, they were outraged. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was declared by the British after the end of the French and Indian War. It was mainly inteneded make peace with the Native Americans. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was also called Plantation Act or the Revenue Act. British legislation was aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on the colonists and it required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. For example, Ship's papers, legal documents, newspapers, and other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was the British parliamentary provision. It required colonial authorities to provide food, dirnks, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces that were stationed in their own towns or villages. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament. It was to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever". The declaration stated the authority was the same in America as it was in Britian. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was series of four acts that were passed by the British Parliament in attempt to maintain what it considered to be its historic right. Exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties were considered to be its historic right -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured between a "patriot" mob that were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a group of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
The act was not intened to raise income in the American colonies, and imposed no new taxes. It was designed to support the East India Company which was struggling financially and troubled with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a group of Massachusetts colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts the series of acts British Parliament passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party that came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. -
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1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Carpenter's Hall was also the place of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
