Proclamation Line (October 7 , 1763) The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War
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Stamp Act (March 22, 1765)
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Quartering Act (March 24, 1765)
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area Mar 24, 1765 -
Declaratory Act (1766)
Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act -
Townshend Act (1767)
Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies -
The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
The Committees of Correspondence (November 4, 1772)
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4th of November 1772 -
Tea Act (May 10, 1773)
The Tea Act: The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. ... The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act -
The Boston Tea party (December 16, 1773)
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea -
Intolerable Act (1774)
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests -
Common Sense (January 10, 1776)
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain -
Concord Hymn (1837)
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War
