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Treaty of Paris 1763
Ended the Seven Year's War. Signed by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. -
Proclomation of 1763
Said that now settlers were allowed west of the Appalachian Moutains. It was supposed to stabalize the relationship between the British and the Native Americans for trading prposes. -
Stamp Act 1765
Required that legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies were written on stamped paper. -
Quartering Act of 1765
Said that british soldiers would live in American barracks annd public houses. If the soldiers outnumbered the avaliable housing, then they would be quartered into inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts consist of the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. -
Boston Massacre
When British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Disguised as Indians, the demonstrators destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. -
Intolerable Acts
They were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
Quartering Act of 1774
It was in reaction to the Boston Tea Party. The Quartering Act of 1774 allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings,such as: barns, inns, among other unoccupied structures, if suitable quarters were not provided. -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Declaration of Independence
Said that that the thirteen coloniesvwere indipendent states. -
Battles of Saratoga
Two battles that were fought that are useualy thought of as turning points in the war. The Americans won and John Burgoyne's army retreated. -
Siege of Yorktown
It 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 (1783)
Ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britan and the United States of America.