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Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty ended the French and Indian War. The British now has control of the Ohio River Valley. -
Sugar Act 1764
Duty on imported sugar from the West Indies. It as the first tax levied on the colonists by the crown and was lowered substantially in suppress to widespread protests. -
Stamp Act 1765
Assembly of delegates from nine colonies who met in New York City to draft a petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Helped ease sectional suspicions and promote inter colonial unity. -
Quartering Act 1765
Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. -
Townshend Act 1767
Imposed a light import duty on glass, white led, paper, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre 1770
British shot and killed 5 people when being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party 1773
100 Bostonians disguised as Indians got on the ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Act 1774
Meant to punish Massachusetts colonists for their resistance in the Tea Party protest. -
First Continental Congress 1774
Met in Philadelphia. 12 out of the 13 colonies sent 55 men each, Georgia did not. -
Second Continental Congress 1775
A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
The American forces learned that the British were planning on taking over the hills around Boston in order to gain a tactical advantage. -
Declaratory Act 1776
Stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence 1776
Settlement declaring freedom of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. -
Battle of Trenton 1776
Washington recrossed the Delaware River and captured 1,000 Hessians. -
Siege of Yorktown 1781
Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown and ended the American Revolutionary War.
