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Proclamation of 1763
No settlement West of the of the Appalachian Mountains. -
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Events Leading to the Revolution
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Sugar Act 1764
The Sugar Act taxed people on sugar or molasses. The Colonist and Great Britain were disagreeing more. -
Stamp Act 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Required colonist to purchase special stamped paper. -
Quartering Act 1765
They were two British laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. General Thomas Gage commander in chief was appointed new governor. -
Repeal of Stamp Act 1766
After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Townshend Act/Duties 1767
Were 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 program. -
Boston Massacre 1770
Tensions between the American colonists and the British were already running high in the early spring of 1770. Late in the afternoon, on March 5, a crowd of jeering Bostonians slinging snowballs gathered around a small group of British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House. -
Tea Act 1773
The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The colonist would buy the cheapest tea. -
Intolerable Acts 1774
Were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. For the colonist defiance they would throw a large tea shipment into the Boston Harbor. -
Lexington and Concord 1775
Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middle-sex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The colonist seized and destroyed all mutations they could find -
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
Was the first great great battle of the Revolutionary war. The colonist lost 450 men. -
Second Continental Congress 1775
It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
