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Treaty of paris
The 1763 Treaty of Paris between Great Britian, France, and Spain formally ended the Seven Years War and the French and Indian War. This treaty distributed land in North America previously owned by the French. Great Britain took most of French Canada, and Spain took Louisiana. -
The Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modification of the 1733 Sugar and Molasses Act. This act was designed to raise taxes on sugar, and lower taxes on molasses, thereby disrupting colonial economies through reducing the markets they could sell to. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was one of the most contested act passed by the British Parliament. It added a tax to every stamp that needed to be placed on a document. This mainly affected the upper class, whom it greatly outraged. -
The Quartering Act
The Stamp Act was one of the most contested act passed by the British Parliament. It added a tax to every stamp that needed to be placed on a document. This mainly affected the upper class, whom it greatly outraged. -
Parliament repeals stamp act
The Marquis of Rockingham, the British prime minister, pushed the king to stop the Stamp Act. Benjamin Franklin even made an appearance before the British House of Commons to try and stop the Stamp Act. Parliament finally repealed it. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770, five colonists were killed by British regulars. This event was the culmination of all the tensions between colonists and the British over theTownshend Acts. The Americans were throwing snowballs that had rocks to British. Both sides blame each other for the first shot after someone came into the town square and yelled “fire” referring to a house fire. The first to die was Crispus Attucks. This started rage between the two and many more battles to come. -
The Boston Tea party
Boston patriots organized the Boston Tea Party to protest the 1773 Tea Act. Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. They smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped them into the harbor. -
The Intolerable acts
This was parliaments response to the Boston tea party. It was a series of acts to punish the Massachusetts colonists. The biggest being the Boston port act, this closed the port until damages were paid back. The acts also limited rights that were partied in Massachuttes. -
First Continental Congress
12 out of the 13 Colonies meet to discuss the Intolerable Acts and to make sure that the Crown understood how they felt about the new laws. They pledged to meet in 1775 if their needs were not met. This was in response to the intolerable acts that the British had enforced. -
Lexington and Concord
General Thomas Gage sent about 1,000 soldiers to Lexington and Concord on the night of April 18. They went to Concord to seize a large supply of rebel gunpowder. When the British got to Concord, they found the gunpowder removed. The Americans ambushed them and caused the British to loose the battle. The shots fired that day were the "shots heard round the world." This signaled the start of the American Revolutionary War.
