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Treaty of Paris 1763
This treaty ended the French and Indian war and also the seven years war between Great Britain and France. -
Proclamation Act
Issued by King George III after the French and Indian war which did not allow any settlement past a line alone the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Under this act merchants had to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on importations. -
Stamp Act
An act taxing all paper documents within the colonies. -
The Quartering Act
An act requiring American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needs such as housing and food. -
Stamp Act Congress
Held in New York, it was a group of representatives from British colonies in North America that were devising a protest against new British taxation. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This stated that taxes brought forth by the British colonies without their consent was unconstitutional. -
Stamp Act Repealed
The Stamp Act was voted to be repealed by Parliament. -
Declaratory Act
This act stated that the parliaments taxing authority is the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The purpose was the raise in the income within the colonies to pay the governors and judges salaries. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed many people while being under attack by an angry mob. -
Committee of Correspondence
Apolitical union of the thirteen colonies that were against the British policies. -
Tea Act
An act that put a taxation on tea for the main purpose of reducing the massive amounts of tea in warehouses. -
Boston Tea Party
People threw all the tea off of a ship to go against the Tea Act. -
Acts
A series of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
Meeting of twelve of the thirteen colonies delegates in Pennsylvania in the early stages of the American Revolution. -
Lexington & Concord
The first military encounter of the Revolutionary war. -
Bunker Hill
Fought in Boston during the early years of the Revolutionary war. -
Olive Branch Petition
A document that attempted to avoid a war between the thirteen colonies and the British -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine, it is giving independence to the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
A document that gave the Thirteen colonies their freedom and were no longer under control of the British.
