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Treaty of Paris (February 10th 1763)
This Treaty/ Agreement ended the seven years war against Britain, France and allied French Native American tribes. Great Britain, Spain, France and Portugal all signed in agreement. -
Proclamation Act (October 7th, 1763)
The proclamation Act was set up to forbid any settlers from settling at any point past the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a modification of the Molasses Act of 1733. The Sugar tax was forced because of the overwhelming debt caused by the 7 year war with the French and Indians. -
the Stamp Act
The Stamp act was passed by British parliament onto the thirteen colonies in 1765. This Act enforced colonists to use special paper with a stamp on it while writing letters, newspapers and other things. -
The Quartering Act
This act, enforced by British parliament enforced colonists to provide any needed accommodations or housing for the British soldiers in the colonies. -
The Stamp Act Congress
This was a unified group of various representatives from across the 13 colonies who met together and came up with a protest against Britain's taxations. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This was a draft written at the Stamp Act Congress addressing the issues of taxation without representation, and the overall disapproval of taxation from Great Britain onto the colonists. -
Stamp Act Repealed
After months of protest the colonists won an appeal by the British Parliament after a meeting with Benjamin Franklin in the British house of commons. -
Decalatory Act
This Act accompanied the repeal of the stamp act and the lessening of the sugar act. -
Townshend Act
Acts put in place to try and take revenue from colonists by taxing imported goods such as glass, leads, paints, paper and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Unarmed English protesters were fired upon by the British army in Boston. Three were killed instantly and two later died from their wounds. -
Committee of correspondance
The first established colonial unions in the thirteen colonies. They were created to combat British taxes. -
Tea Act
An act enacted to bail out the British east tea company from debt. The tea company was declared a monopoly for the colonies by the British government, which ultimately lead to the Boston tea party -
Intolerable Acts
They were acts brought upon the colonists From the British parliament after the destruction at the Boston tea party. -
First Continental congress
The first congress gathered colony representatives to discuss the issue of unfair taxing by the British government. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements between colonists and British resistance. -
Bunker Hill
This was the first important battle fought in the American Revolution. Although the Americans lost, they inflicted major casualties upon the British forces. -
Appeal to Reason ejected
King refuses to negotiate. -
Common Sense
A colonial pamphlet written supporting the idea of separation and independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
A written independence agreement written for king James instructing that the American people wanted freedom and the separation from Britain's power.