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Proclamation Act of 1763
The Proclamation Act of 1763,signed by King George III, prohibits any English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclimation also made any who were previously settled west of the Apalachian, move back east. This was done to ease the tensions with the Native Americans -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was passed by English Parliment to help pay off the war debt from the French and Indian War. It raised the duty on sugar, textiles, coffee, wine, and indigo. It also doubled the duty on foreign goods and forbade the import of rum. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act prohibited colonists from issueing any paper tender (money). This had a destabilizing effect on the colonies both North and South. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act ,passed by Paliment, was the first direct tax the colonists paid to England. The Act taxed all printed materials: newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, dice, and even playing cards. -
Quartering Act
Passed by Parliment, the Quartering Act ordered colonists to supply shelter and food for the British troops. -
Townshend Revenue Act
Passed by Parliment, The Townshend Revenue Act taxed tea, paper, glass, lead, and paints. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident were British troops killed five civilian men after firing into the crowd. The troops were being mocked and civilians were throwing things at them. As tensions rose, the soldries felt the need to fire their muskets to protect themselves from the increasing mob. Patrick Henry would immortilze the incident with his woodcarving that would later be shared to all other colonists which only heightened the tension between the colonies and England. -
Tea Act
Passed by Parliment, the Tea Act maintained a threepenny per pound import tax on tea. However, it also allowed the British East India Company to hold a tea monoply in the colonies by allowing them to directly sell with colonial agents. The colonists did not approve of this monopoly. -
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Events Leading to Revolution
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when some of Boston's Patriots dressed as the Mohawk Indians. They climbed abroad three ships and dumped 342 containers of tea into Boston Harbor. This was done in rebellion to the Tea Act. -
Boston Port Bill
Part of the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) passed by Parliment to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Port Bill shut down commericial Boston until the tea tax was paid and the British East India Company regained the lose it took from the Tea Party. -
Massachusetts Regulating Act and Government Act
A part of the Coercive Acts, both the Massachusetts Regulation Act and the Goverment Act ended colonial self-rule. It made England in complete and total control over the colonies. -
Administration of Justice Act
As part of the Coercive Acts, the Administration of Justice Act protected Massachusetts royal officials from being sued. -
Quebec Act
A part of the Coercive Acts, the Quebec Act extended the southern boundaries of Canada. This took territories away from other colonies that had claimed land there. -
Quartering Act
This was very similiar to the Quartering Act 1765. It just enforced the Act more than the previous one. -
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1st Contential Congress
The 1st Contential Congress is where deligates, made up of Patriots, Sons of Liberty, and influencial colonists, met to decide what to do about England. The deligates decided not to follow the Coercive Acts because they go against the civil liberties of the colonists. This is when the deligates decide to promote the formation of local militia and to tell colonists to begin to arm themselves. This is the begining of the fight for civil freedoms for the colonists. -
Massachusetts Govenor Ordered to Supress "Open Rebellion" at Any Cost
The Bristish secretly order the Massachusetts governor to supress any and all open rebellions using any means necessary. -
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere and William Dawes ride out to warn the colonists the British are coming through Lexington to destroy the weapons in Concord. -
British Soldiers Ordered to Destory Weapons in Concord
General Gage orders British soldiers to destroy the weapon depot in Concord. -
First Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Massachusetts militia meet the British troops in Lexington and "the shot heard round the world" is fired starting the American Revolutionary War.
