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proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 prohibited English settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. this was done to prevent future wars with the natives: the English did not want to spend any more money fighting wars in North America. The colonist were outranged by the proclamation; they believed that the land was thiers because of the war they just fought. -
The Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764 the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon. It retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar. And prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
The Stamp Act
Parliament passed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765 and repealed it in 1766. But issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit. -
The Townshed Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, at a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. It proved a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773. At Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.The implication and impact of the Boston Tea Party was enormous ultimately leading to the sparking of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. -
The Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act. A tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773. -
The American Revolutionary War
Unlike previous controversial legislation, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, Parliament did not repeal the Coercive Acts. Hence, Parliament's intolerable policies sowed the seeds of American rebellion and led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in April 1775. -
The Treaty Of Paris
As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the United States was recognized by Great Britain as an independent nation. The British ceded a large amount of territory in what is today known as the American Midwest, basically everything between the original 12 colonies and the Mississippi river. -
The Ending Of The French And Indian War
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.