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Treaty of Paris 1763
signed ending French and Indian War -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III signed the proclamation of 1763 to forbid the settlment west of the Appalachians. -
Stamp Act
An act that tax all goods. -
Declaratory Act
approved after Stamp Act was declared -
Townshend Acts
June-July 1767 Places tax on items no made in the colonies (paint, paper, lead, glass, and tea) -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre is a street fight between the colonists and the British. The colonists were throwing stick and stones and they knocked a British out and the british thought they fired, so they got their guns out and started shooting and killed several colonists. -
Tea Act
Allowed British East India Company to bypass colonial merchants and sell directly to shoekeepers at a low price. -
Boston Tea Party
Tea ships arriveed in Boston Harbor in 1773. They're way to respond to the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts
parliment passed by a series of laws -
First Continental Congress
they all meet up in Philidelphia, but then decided it to be over on October 26. -
Midnight Ride: Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
Revere, Cheswell, and Dawes tells the colonists "The British are coming", to spread the word of a British attack. -
Lexington and Concord
A fight between the cononists and british. By the time redcoats reached boston 174 were wounded and 73 were dead. "Shot heard round' the world'. -
Second Continental Congress
They all meet up in Philedelphia.
