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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
This document was sent to the Colonists’ by the King and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists petitioned the parliament, which resulted in the boundary line being moved back -
SUGAR ACT
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.The colonists were angry about the act. Colonists took action against the British in opposition to the Sugar Act. They boycotted English products, and this earned the attention of Great Britain by hurting them financially. -
QUARTERING ACT
The Quartering Act of 1765 was an act passed by British Parliament, which forced people in the US colonies to house and feed British soldiers during times of peace if there was no room in barracks. The colonists reacted negatively overall to the act. -
STAMP ACT
An act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles. The colonists vocalized their differences in assemblies, newspapers and the Stamp Act Congress. -
REPEAL OF STAMP ACT
After months of protests, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. The colonists were in control of the British government. -
TOWNSEND ACT/DUTIES
It is acts of the British Parliament in 1767, especially the act that placed duties on tea, paper lead, paint, etc., importer into the American colonies. The colonists boycott against British luxury items. They dumped tea in the Boston Harbor. -
BOSTON MASSACRE
A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troop quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people. The colonists were outraged that vicious attack on unarmed civilians. -
TEA ACT
An act of the British Parliament that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
INTOLERABLE ACT
A series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists boycotted and conveyed the First Continental Congress. -
FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
12 of 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) send delegates in response to the Intolerable Acts. They sent petition to England calling for repeal of repressive legislation and told colonies to prepare their militias. The colonists acted like a united government for the first time. -
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The colonists were proud of the courage shown by the minutemen. -
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
The first important battle of the American War of Independence which was fought at Breed’s Hill; the British defeated the colonial forced. The colonists gathered weapons, forming new militias and replacing royal governments with colonial ones. -
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
It was a convention of delegated from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. -
COMMON SENSE BY THOMAS PAINE
Common Sense was a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. The pamphlet listed grievances against the King. The colonists moved towards declaring independence from England. -
TREATY OF PARIS
America is now independent and extends from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Britain evacuates fort from the Northwest. America will ask states to compensate loyalists.
