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Proclomation of 1763
The Proclomation of Independence was signed. -
Sugar Act
his first law ever passed by the body for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. It increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. -
Quartering Act
An act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. -
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 The colonists rebelled and this was repealed, except for one tax.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
A crowd of about sixty townspeople set upon a squad of ten redcoats. One red coat was hit by a club and a nother red coat was knocked down. -
Boston Tea Party
The British East India Company overburdened with 17 million pounds of unsold tea, was facing bankruptcy. The company was rewarded with a monopoly of the American tea buisness. -
1st Continental Congress Meet
A response to the Intolerable Acts. Met in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial greivances. -
Intolerable Acts
A lot of acts passed by Parliament designed to chastise Massachuestts, but Boston more specifically. The Boston Port Act was the most drastic act. It closed the tea-stained harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensued. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The colonists had weapons stored in Lexington and Concord, so the Brittish decided to go there and sieze the weapons from the Colonists. -
2nd Continental Congress meets
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
