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Proclamation of 1763
As a result of Pontiac's Rebellion and other American Indian uprisings, the British issued the Proclamation Act of 1763, barring settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. the law also required fur traders to obtain royal permission before entering the territory. -
Sugar Act of 1764
This act imposed a duty, or import tax, on foreign sugar, molasses, and several other items entering Great Britain's American colonies. -
Stamp Act 1765
The Stamp Act placed a tax on printed matters of all kinds: advertisements, diplomas, legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act 1765
When more British troops were stationed, New York's colonial assembly responded by refusing to provide moneyto quarter, or house and supply. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Declaratory Act 1766
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. This states that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in England. -
Townshend Act 1767
This was put in act because the colonists refused to the stamp tax because it was being collected within the colonies. Instead it would be collected at colonial ports. These laws placed import duties on such common items as tea, lead, glass, and dyes for paint. -
Boston Massacre 1770
This was when a group of colonists went to protest in a street. They were shouting and fighting the British soldiers. As conflict grew, the soldiers acted by shooting the crowed. Three died at the scene and two died later. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty published this as the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act 1773
Since the East Indie Company was going bankruptnthey had to come up with a solution. The Tea Act excused the company from paying certain duties and permitted it to sell tea directly to American agents. -
Boston Tea Party
The destruction of the tea in Boston was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. they were disguised as Indians and 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. -
Coercive Acts 1774
After the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament responded by passing the Coercive Acts. They were four laws designed to punish Boston and the rest of Massachusetts and to strengthen British control over all of the colonies. The colonists called these laws the Intolerable Acts. -
Quebec Act 1774
This act extended Quebec's boundary south to the Ohio river, thus overriding the claims of Conneticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia to the disputed western lands. -
First Continental Congress
Between Sept. 5 and Oct. 26, 1774, representatives from every colony except Georgia attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. this was not a lawmaking body but a convention where delegates could discuss their grievances and consider their options. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Second Continental Congress
The news of Lexington and Concord spread through the colonies when the Second Continental Congress opened in Philadelphia on May 10. Samuel Adams pushed for an immediate decloration of independence from Britain. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a fortified attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. However, the Petition succeeded the July 6 Declaration of Taking up Arms which made its efficacy in London dubious. -
Decloration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by The Continental Congress 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. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America.
