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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris had ended the Indian and France war between France and Great Britain. It had also caused France to lose all of their land in North America -
Proclamation Act
The whole idea of the Proclamation was to create a boundary between the Native Americans and the colonists. After the Proclamation was created by Kind George III, the Indians got the west side of the Appalachian Mountains while the colonists were forced to stay on the east side. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was an act the was passed to increase revenue and to it was the replacement for the Molasses Act. The good thing about the Sugar Act was that it reduced the tax amount by half -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was created to provide the British soldiers provisions and a home to live in. It had required many of the colonies to house soldiers in barracks. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act that was passed to impose a tax on all the paper documents to increase revenue in the colonies. An increase in revenue was well needed for the British Empire because they were in debt so they used the North American colonies to get themselves out of debt. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress consisted of 9 colonies that would get together and push past their differences to come to a conclusion and after the meeting, they came up with the idea of the Declaration of Rights & Grievances. -
Declaration of Rights & Grievances
The Declaration of Rights & Grievances was put in places to have no taxation without representation. It was also was written to oppose the Stamp Act. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine in January 1766 but wasn't published until February. In his pamphlet he had written about his belief about how King George III and the British were being unfair -
Stamp Act Repealed
The Stamp Act Congress (9 colonies) had gotten together and repealed the Stamp Act because they thought that having people pay tax on all the paper that was printed, was unfair. -
Declaratory Act
After the Stamp Act was repealed, the Stamp Act Congress had passed the Declaratory Act. The Declaratory Act stated that the British Parliament's taxing in America was now like the taxing in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act is a series of four laws that were passed by the British Parliament that imposed taxes on paper, tea, lead, paints, and glass. Many Americans saw this act as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre resulted in the deaths of five colonists. The whole situation and gathering was imposed by the taxes set on items (Townshend Act). -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence had established a political union among the thirteen colonies, this committee was responsible for taking action against the British. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act had granted the British East India Company Tea, the control of the tea sales and trade in the American colonies but it also didn't bring any new taxes onto the tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party had taken place in the Boston Harbor on 3 British Ships. The Boston Tea Party became what it was because colonists didn't want to pay taxes on British Tea anymore. A group of Massachusetts went under disguise and started to throw tea overboard the ships. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts was a set of laws that were very harsh and were passed to punish the American colonists that were protesting the tea act and were part of the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. They had gotten together in Philadelphia to discuss what to do about the Coercive Acts passed by the British Parliament. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is what had started the American Revolutionary War. The British Army had gone to Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington then head to Concord to use their guns to create some commotion. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was set in the early Revolutionary War where the British had defeated the Americans in Massachusetts. Soon after the battle, the British realized that the war against the Americans would be long and tough. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
John Dickinson had appealed to King George III that he wanted reconciliation between the 13 colonies and Great Britain. But the king refused to hear what he had to say and denies the Olive Branch Petition. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a huge part of Americas history. On July 4th 1776, Americans were finally no longer ruled by the British and had finally received the freedom they had been fighting for, for years.
