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Treaty of Paris, 1763
This ended the French and Indian war between Great Britain and France. France had to give away all their North American land. -
Proclamation of 1763
A proclamation issued by King George III that the settlers could not go past the Appalachian Mountains so that Indian attacks were less likely to occur. -
Sugar Act
First law to stop the illegal smuggling of sugar in the West Indies. -
Stamp Act
All legal and commercial documents had to be certified with a stamp. The stamp was taxed to help with debt. -
Quartering Act
Citizens were ordered to house and feed troops. -
Stamp Act Congress
The first meeting of a large group of representatives from American colonies to make a protest against new British taxation. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament released a statement saying that they have the right to pass any law over the colonies. -
Townshend Act
This was a set of four acts passed in order to force the "right" over the colonies by suspending an uncooperative assembly and strict use of duties. -
Boston Massacre
The killing of five colonists by the British created tension in many different colonies created the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
Roughly 100 Bostonians, dressed as Native Americans, smashed open around 350 chests of tea and dumped it into the Atlantic. This was used to make the British lose heavily ecomonically. -
Intolerable Acts
Restrictions were placed on town meetings, the harbour was closed down, Britain soldiers were now sent to Britain for trial (were likely to be proven innocent) and gave local authorites the power to lodge British soliders anywhere. -
First Continental Congress
Twelve of the thirteen colonies (Gerogia was absent) all come together for a meeting in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
First battles of the Revolutionary War which was fought outside of Boston. The Americans forced the British to retreat to Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
This was a group of delegates from the colonies that started meeting during the summer of 1775. This later led to the decision of the American Revolutionary War. -
Bunker Hill
This was where the British defeated the Americans in Massachusetts in the early Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine released a pamphlet to convey the American colonists that their independence was crucial. -
Saratoga
The Americans drove back St. Leer's force at Oriskany. Because they could not advance nor retreat, Burgoyne was forced to surrender his entire command to the American general Horatio Gates. -
Yorktown
Cornwallis fell into a trap, falling back to the Chesapeake Bay at Yorktown. During this period British naval superiority slipped away -
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Britain recognized the independence of the United States, thus, ending the war.
