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Treaty of Paris
Ended the 7 Years War. The French were now nearly gone from the New World. Great Britain gained all land to the east of the Mississippi River and Spain gained everything West of the Mississippi. -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain prohibitted the colonists from going West of the Appalachians Mountains -
Sugar Act
The first law ever passed by Britain for the colonists. Resulted in the rise of tax revenue, but angered the colonists. -
Quartering Act
This measure required certain coloniest to provide food and quarters for British troops. -
Stamp Act Congress
Twenty seven distinguished delegates from nine colonies debated about their rights as colonists. They drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the King and Parliament to repeal the repugnant lesgislation. -
Stamp Act
Rose revenue to support the military force and mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps, certifying the payment of tax. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
They enforced the nonimportation agreements against violaters and rainsacked houses of unpopular officials, confiscated their money, and hanged effigies of stamp agents on liberty poles. -
Parliament Repealled Stamp Act, and Passed the Declaratory Act
Colonists were rejoicing the lowering of their taxes, but it was premature. At the same time, they passed the Declaratory Act, reaffirming parliaments right "to blind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" proving that it had sovereignty over its colonies. -
Nonimportation Agreement
Was a wide spread adoption among the colonists in which they boycotted goods imported from England. -
Boston Massacre
Towns people taunted red coats, leading to the redcoats firing into the crowd. They killed or wounded 11 people. -
Commitees of Corespondance
Some 80 towns in the colonies set up similar organizations whose chief function was to spread the spirit of resistance by exchanging letters and thus keep alive opposition to British policy. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Indians boarded a docked tea ship. They attacked the ship and smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped their contents into the Atlantic. -
Boston Port Act
Closed the tea stained harbor until damages were paid and order could be insured. -
Intolerable Acts
Many of the charterred rights of colonial Massachussetts were swept away, enforcing officials who killed colonists in the line of duty could now be sent to Britain for trial. -
First Continental Congress
To meet in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances. They worked for 54 days. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The British commander in Boston sent a detachment of troops to nearby Lexington and Concord. They were to seize stores of colonial gunpowder and also to bag the "rebel" ring leaders. At Lexington, the colonial "minutemen" refused to disperse rapidly and shots were fired, killing 8 Americans and wounding several more. The redcoats were forced to retreat at Concord when they were met by ready Americans. -
Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment
Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved blacks in Virginia who joined the British army. -
The Declaration of Independance
The document that the colonists sent to Great Britain to tell them that tey no longer wanted to be a part of their nation.
