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Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation was issued October 7, 1763 by King George the third following great Britain's acquisitions of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past the line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament in April, 1764. Taxes from the earlier Molasses Actof 1733 had never been effectively collected, largely due to colonial evasion as the molasses trade grew -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was a law that was required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, and even playing cards. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation -
Tea Act
The tea act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain its principal overt objective was to reduced a massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company and to help the struggling company to survive -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16th, 1773. The demonstrators destroyed entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, and defines of the Tea Act on May 10 1773.They boarded the and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, ruining the tea -
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The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
