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Stamp Act
an act the British Parliament in 1756 that took revenue from the American colonies by creating a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. the Colonies opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766. -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The Treaty of Paris of 1763, was signed on February 10th 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years War. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was ordered October 7 1763, by King George the third following Great Britain's gain of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which prevented all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Declaratory Act
The American Colonies Act 1766, commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament, which followed the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed starting in 1767, by the Parliament relating to the British colonies in Northern America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, who proposed the the acts. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight that occurred on March 5 1770, between a mob throwing stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the citizenry. -
The tea act
the Tea Act was the turning point in a series of disliked taxes imposed by Britain on the colonies. The policy ignited opposition and resentment among American colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16 1773. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Midnight ride
On April 18 1775, Paul Revere was sent for by Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were coming. -
Lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord started fighting on April 19 1775, started the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
It succeeded the First Continental Congress which met between September 5 1774, and October 26 1774. The second Congress took care of the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
