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1. Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war that was between Great Britian and France. The treaty was signed causing France to give up all its territories in North Amercia. -
2. Proclamation Act
This act established four new colonies in North Amercia. But it was more importantly an act protecting Indian land, and if Englishmen settled in Indian land that would have to leave that land. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was born because the former Sugar and Molasses Act was about to expire. The Sugar Act made the taxes on Sugar and Molasses cheaper than the former act stated. -
6. Stamp Act
Britian passed this act claiming that any printed piece of paper the American Colonists use would be taxed. -
7. Quartering Act
The quartering act is an act declared by the British parilment that the American colonies must house British soilders and accomadate then as needed. -
4. Stamp Act Congress
The Colonists were not happy with the amount of money they were being taxed for so they created the Stamp Act Congress in New York. -
5. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This was created by the Stamp Act Congress and the met. It declared that Britain could not tax the conolnist without there consent. -
8. Stamp Act Repealed
After mouths of the colonists boycotting the Stamp Act parliament repeals the stamp act. -
9. Declaratory Acts
The Declaratory Act worked hand in hand with the Stamp Act being repealed. With the Declaratory Act parliament enforced that they had complete authority to make laws that the American colonies had to follow in all cases. -
10.Townshend Act
This Act put taxes on items such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea that was imported into the American colonies from Britian. Many colonists were angered and thought that parliament was abusing their power. -
11. Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was simply a street fight between a group of British soilders and a mob of patriots. There were five people killed by the British soilders, propaganda was then used in newspapers and spread throughtout all of the American colonies. -
12.Committee of Correspondence
The House of Burgesses declared the each coloney should created an intercolonial correspondence, so that each colony would have a group of leaders. -
13. Tea Act
This act declared that the colonists could not buy any tea unless in came from the East India Tea Company. This caused many colonists to lose there jobs and angered others because they saw it as another taxation without representation. -
14. Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams led the Sons of Liberty and boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor throwing tons of tea chests into the harbor. -
15. Intolerable Act
In Britian this is known as the Coercive Acts, but the American Patriots gave it the name as the Intolerable Act. This act took away Massachusetts' self government and all of their historic rights. -
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16. 1st Continental Congress
This was a meeting with delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that meet at Carpenters's Hall in Philadelphia. The congress was called together in responce of the "Intolerable Acts." -
17.Lexigton and Concord
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. British soilders were set out in the early morning to seek the destination of Lexigton and then go to Concord to raid the base of colonial army. -
18. Bunker Hill
Video about Battle of Bunker Hill
At this battle the British defeated the Amercians, although it is called the battle of Bunker Hill most of the fighting actually took place at Breed's Hill. -
19. Appeal to Reason Rejected(Olive Branch Petition)
The 2nd Continental Congress wrote this document to send to the kind, asking for peace and to avoid full on war between the colonies and Great Britian. Unfortunately the king rejected this and said he would no longer work with them peacefully. -
20. Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote this document for all the colonists to read and so they too would get the idea to declared independence. -
21. Declaration of Independence
The main writter of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson, but it was Richard Henry Lee's proposition to declare independence from Great Britian. The 2nd Continental Congress meet and it was written, declaraing America and idependent country.
