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Proclamation of 1763
YOU CAN SETTLE LEFT OF THE APOLATION MOUNTAINS
ACORDING TO KING GEORGE THE 3RD -
Signing of the Treaty of Paris
ENDING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR -
Stamp Act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed. -
Quartering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons -
Townshend Revenue Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house -
Boston Tea Party
because of tea act Americans disguised as Mohawk Indians dump East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. -
Continental Congress
Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle of Yorktown
was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War
