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Treaty of Paris
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Proclamation of 1763
King George III declared the Appalachian Mountains were the temporary western boundaries for the ccolonies. The british kept 10,000 troops in America to keep people colonists from violating the proclamation. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act placed taxes on nearly all printed material in the colonies- including newspapers, pamphlets, wills, and playing cards. Printed material had to have a stamp applied by British officials. -
Declaratory Acts
Says that the Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for ALL British colonies "IN ALL CASES". -
Townshend Acts
Taxed imported goods and made the colonists pay at the port. Taxes included glass, tea, paper, and lead. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists and soldiers got into a fight. Townspeople the sticks and stones at soldiers. The redcoats fired killing 5 colonists. They called it "The Boston Massacre". -
Tea Act
Passed to help keep the British East India Company from going out of business. Allowed the company to bypass colonial merchants and sell directly to shopkeepers at a low price. -
Boston Tea Party
In response to the Tea Act, Samuel Adams and the Boston Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians, and in the middle of the night sneaked onto the three tea ships that had just arrived and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
1st Continental Congress
55 delegates met in Philadelphia to discuss problems with Britain. Delegates drafted a statement of complaints asking Parliament to repeal 13 acts it had passed since 1763 that violated colonists' rights. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliment passed a series of harsh laws to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Party. They closed Boston Harbor until the ruined tea was paid off and kept food and supplies from being delivered to Boston. Also, they banned town meetings, allowed British officers to be tried in other colonies, and forced colonists to quarter soldiers in their homes. -
Midnight Ride: Rever, Cheswell, Dawes
Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell, and William Dawes were alerted when a group of British soldiers were seen gathering in Boston. They road to Lexington to Warn Samuel Adams, John Hancock and the rest of the militiamen that the British were coming. -
Lexington and Concord
70 militiamen were waiting at town square with muskets when the redcoats reached Lexington. When the fighting was over, eight militiamen were dead. Most of the gunpowder had been moved by the time the British troops reached Concord. All pictures on this timeline were taken from chapter 5 notes -
2nd Continental Congress
The Loyalist delegates said the colonies were not ready to form a seperate nation. The patriots argued that the war had already begun. The Congress chse Thomas Jefferson to draft a Declaration of Independence. They also unanimously chose George Washington to be the army's commander.
