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Navigation Laws Uproar
Prime Minister George Grenville ordered the British navy to enforce the Navigation Laws -
Proclamation of 1763
Banned settlements past the the Appalachians mountains -
Sugar Act
Increased duty on sugar from the West Indies -
Quartering Act
Colonist had to provide soldiers with food and a place to sleep. -
Stamp Tax
Colonist are now required to pay taxes on all paper goods. -
Stamp act congress
Delegates from the colonizes meet to discuss what they wanted to do about the stamp act. Made the Declaration of Rights and Grievances and sent it the British parliament and King. -
Stamp act repealed
The British Parliament repeals the stamp act. -
Townshed Acts
Put a light duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. -
Enforcing order
Britain sends to regiments of troops to Boston to try and maintain order. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired upon protesting colonists in Boston -
East India Company facing bankruptcy
The East India Company was almost bankruptcy so Britain gave them a monopoly over tea in America -
Boston Tea Party
About 100 Bostonians boarded merchant ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Passed acts to punish the Colonist after the Boston Tea Party and protests. Closed down the Boston port until they paid for the tea -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from the twelve of the thirteen colonies meet to discuss grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
British soldiers sent to Lexington and Concord to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock while also confiscating gunpowder and weapons. Shot fired at Lexington killing 8 Americans and wounding several more, before pushing to Concord were Britain suffered heavy loses. -
Olive Branch Petition
Petition given to the king professing American loyalty to the crown and begging the King to prevent further hostilities. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense which -
Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence was approved and signed. -
Battle of Trenton
Washington lead his men on a ambush on Trenton were a Hessian camp was. Captured 1000 Hessian leading to an increase in moral. -
Vally forge
Where Washington and his men stayed for the winter of 1777-1778. Poor conditions lowered moral, some of the militia died, and even more deserted. -
Battle of Saratoga
Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga. This lead to France joining the war. -
French offically enters
French officially joins the war on the colonists side. -
Battle of Yorktown
The last big battle of the war. Cornwallis surrendered after being surrounded by the French and the militia. -
Treaty of Paris
Officially ended the war. The United States formally given Independence.
