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Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France -
Proclamation of 1763
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Road to Revolution
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Sugar Act
First law ever passed by that body for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. -
Currency Act
Gave Parliament control of the colonial currency system. It abolished the Bills of Credit and put the colonists at a further economic disadvantage. -
Stamp Act
Mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps certified payment of taxes. -
Quartering Act
This measure required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. -
Stamp Act Congress
Brought together 27 distinguished delagates from nine colonies. Members debated a statement drawn up of their rights and beseated the king and parliament to repeal the regpugnant legislation. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament in virtually passed it, asserting its right to make laws governing the colonists. -
Townshend Acts
Expanded the customs service. Revenue from the acts paid the salaries of colonial governors, and judges in America. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers under Captain Thomas Preston fired on a Boston crowd, killing and wounding 11 citizens. -
Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed the Tea Act that authorized the East India Company to bypass American wholesalers and sell tea directly to American distributors. So, colonists in Boston, disguised as Indians, boarded three vessels and dumped 342 canisters of British tea into Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
Quebec Acts
Enlarged French Quebec to cover the area as far west as the Mississippi River and as far south as the Ohio River. -
The First Continental Congress
Meeting in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances. It declared that all trade with Britain should be suspended. -
The creation of "The Association"
The most significant action of the Congress. Called for a complete boycott of British goods. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The beginning of the Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence
The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
