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Signing of the Treaty of Paris
-Paris gave the colonists a desire of freedom, signaling upcoming conflict.
-The Treaty of Paris signaled the end of the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
-Required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
-It was designed to fairly workout Native disputes. -
Stamp Act
- To raise money from the colonies for Britain. -Increased tax on sugar imported from West Indies to North American colonies.
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Sugar Act
-To raise money from the colonies for Britain.
-Increased tax on sugar imported from West Indies to North American colonies. -
Quartering Act
-Required colonists to house British soldiers.
-Revoked after much protest in 1766. -
Townshend Act
-These acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
-The Americans boycotted British goods. -
British Troops Arrive in Boston
-The British government feeling were fearing the breakdown of law and order.
-The daily contact of British soldiers and colonists served to worst relations. -
Boston Massacre
-Colonists called the shootings the Boston Massacre.
-Sixty colonists kept on throwing snowbells, provoking them to open fire -
Tea Act
-Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
-To reduce the massive amount of tea. -
.Boston Tea Party
-Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor.
-They sold tea so the colonists can buy it. -
Intolerable Acts
-Boston Port Act- closed Boston harbor to trade until damages paid, order assured.
-These acts included the Boston Port Bill, until the price of the dumped tea was paid -
Continental Congress
-The Galloway Plan of Union obliged Americans to make their own version of Parliament.
-First Continental Congress met in Carpenter’s Hall in Philidelphia. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
-Both were attempts by British to seize colonial gunpowder and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock- leaders of rebellion. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-American colonists would prove the British they were a serious military force determined to win their independence.
-The colonists slaughtered the British until the ran out of gunpowder, they were forced to retreat. -
.George Washington is appoint Commander-in-Chief
-George Washington was selected based on his previous military experience.
-After eight years of war, George Washington resigned his commission as Commander in Chief on Dec 23, 1783
