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Proclamation of 1763
This proclamation did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountians. The British government feared the conflict between colonists and Native Americans lands. Colonists were enraged by this proclamation because they felt they had won the right to settle in the Ohio River Valley after winning the French and Indian War. -
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Road to Revolution
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Quartering Act
In 1765 Parliment passed the Quartering Act. They passed this act to keep peace with Native American allies. This act kept 10,000 soldiers in the colonies, and required colonists to house, supply, and feed the British soldiers. This act outraged several colonist, and was the second act to upset the colonists. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act, passed by Parliament in 1765, required all legal documents to have an official stamp. This stamp showed that the colonists had payed their taxes. Parliament passed this law to increase revenue for the war debt. This tax only outraged colonists further into revloution. -
Townshend Acts
These acts also passed by Parliament (in 1767) placed duties or import taxes on glass, paint, lead, tea, and other goods to the colonies. This act was also placed to raise revenue to pay off the war debt. British even used writs of assistance (search warrents) to enforce the act. This act majorly made the colonists outraged. -
Tea Act/Boston Tea Act
The Townshend Acts have been all repealed but one. This single act was non other than the Tea Act. This was still not good enough for the colonists, They wanted all taxes and acts repealed. The Tea Act stated that all tea must be from one company only (The British East India Company) and the tea must be taxed. This time the colonist were so outraged they boycotted by throwing all the tea over board a ship in an event called the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were passed by Parliament in responce to the Boston Tea Party. This act closed the Boston harbor until the ravaged tea was payed for. Also, the act stated the British may house troops wherever when necessary, and let British officials accuse crimes and made victims to stand trial in Britian. Lastly, the Parliament appointed a British man to be the govenor of Massachusetts. The First Continential Congress was ajured upon. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The First battle of the Revolutionary War in Lexington was brutial. 700 British troops reach Lexington to continue their persuit to Concord until they we stopped by 60 militia men. In the end 8 colonists were dead and as they retreated, British troops exceeded to Concord. The British were regrouped with another 1,000 troops, but when reached Concord, were stopped by an astonishing 4,000 troops. the British, defeated, fleed back to Boston as the colonists had won. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition, published in 1775, was the last attempt at peace between the colonies and Britian. It was sent to King Geogre III and asked the King to restore the peace between the two. The king rejected the petition and instead started more trouble by doing the following; sent british ship to block American ships from leaving their ports, and hired Hessians (German train soldiers) to fight America. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, signed in 1776, was the final letter that stated the split of the two countries. It was made by Thomas Jefferson and signed by all of the delegtades in the Continential Congress. The document was adopted on July 4, 1775 (which we now celebrate as Independence Day) by the Congress. It showed America as a independent and free country of its own.
