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Proclamation of 1763
No settlement West of the Appalachian Mountains, Colonists took this event as a sign of disrespect from the british. -
Sugar Act
This act halved duty on foreign made molasses, placed duties on certain imports, and strengthened enforcement. The colonies were enraged about the tax and government. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act allowed British troops to be housed in any vacant rooms owned by colonists. Colonists were fed up with the British. -
The Stamp Act
This act required colonists to buy special stamped paper with every legal document, dice, and playing cards. The colonists who disobeyed this law could be convicted. -
The Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Parliment repealed of the act and the same day a right was made that gave the Parliment authority to create any law they please. -
Townshend Acts/Duties
An indirect tax on imported materials and tea. Colonists boycotted British goods in response. -
Boston Massacre
As a fight broke out over jobs and left Crispus Attucks and 4 others dead, This events settled down after the event. -
Tea Act
This act granted a company to sell tea free of tax to the colonies. This act triggered the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
Rebels dressed as Native Americans had gone onto a trade ship on the Port of Boston and threw 343 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
A variety of laws and acts passed in 1774. The first Continental congress was assembled. -
Lexington and Concord
When the British marched to Concord to strike the minutemen, while the minutemen sent Paul Revere to warn Adams and Hancock. The minutemen stood their ground while Adams and Hancock fled to the countryside. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A fight between the British and the minutemen, British victory only because the colonists ran out of supplies. The colonies are blaming the king's ministers for this event. -
Second Continental Congress
Preparing colonies for war, but they want piece. -
The Shot Heard Around The World
The first shot fired in the Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote a 47 page "pamphlet" that moved the colonists into declaring independence from the British.
