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Signing of the Treaty of Paris
This ended the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). The British gained control over the area west of the thirteen colonies to the Mississippi River, and Canada. The Spanish were forced to give up thier claim over Florida. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III whiched followed Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America. This forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.This seperated the British colonies, and the American Indians. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a three cent tax put on foreign sugar, and increased taxes on certain items like coffee, indigo, and wine. These taxes affected the merchants in the colonies, and the taxes were raised without the colonists knowing. -
Stamp Act
Every document, newspaper, magazine, and pamphlet in the colonies had to have a stamp or British seal on it.This stamp proved that the colonists had payed the tax for these items. The colonists were very upset because they were forced to pay taxes on something which did not have taxes on them for many years. The Sons of Liberty was formed in repsonse to the Stamp Act -
Quartering Act
On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
This was a series of taxes placed on multiple goods such as sugar, paper, and tea. The colonists rebelled and this was repealed, except for one tax. -
Boston Massacre
Here, the colonists decided to provoke some Brittish sentries into firing their guns. This was blown out of proportion, and was used to cast the Brittish in a bad light. -
Tea Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts 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 of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
