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The Proclamation Line of 1763
The royal proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763 following great britain's acquisition of french territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War and the Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act, also known as the american revenue act or the american duties act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. -
Stamp act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766. -
TownShend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5th 1770 british soldiers shot and killed people while being harassed by a mob in boston. Started as a fight between american colonists and a british soldier and escalated quickly-March 5th 1770 -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that happened on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Massachusetts, american colonists where frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” so they dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle of lexington and concord were the first military engagements in the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in middlesex county, province of massachusetts bay,,within the towns of lexington, concord, lincoln, menotomy, and cambridge. -
Battle of Bunker hill
The battle of bunker hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the siege of boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown Massachusetts. -
Treaty Of Paris
Treaty that made peace between Britain and America-Signed in September 3, 1783. The congress of the confederation ratified the treaty on January 14, 1784
