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Treaty of Paris of 1763
This ended the French and Indian war with the colonies as the winners. France no longer had power in the colonies so, land was divided between Spain and Great Britain with the Mississippi River as the border. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George lll forbade colonists to settle past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Parliament put a tax on all printed items. Colonists had to get an official stamp put on the printed item. Samuel Adams started Sons of Liberty to help protest against it. British merchants lost so much money that they asked Parliament to repeal it. -
Declaratory Act
Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed. It said that Parliament had the right to tax all of the British colonies “IN ALL CASES" -
Townshend Acts
June-July 1767
The Townshend Acts placed a tax on items that were not made in the colonies such as paper, paint, lead, glass and tea so, the colonists would have to give Parliament more money. This backfired on Parliament because the colonists went without these things and this made then economically independent. -
Boston Massacre
Fight between British troops and Bostonians. Colonists threw sticks and stones at the soldiers and they fired back, killing 5 colonists. The colonists used this as propaganda. -
Tea Act
Parliament wanted to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British East India Company who were struggling financially in its London warehouses to help the company survive. They could bypass colonial merchants and sell tea directly to shopkeepers. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians, snuck onto a British ship that ported in the Boston Harbor, and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
Colonists renamed the Coercive Acts the Intolerable acts. The Acts were meant to punish the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party. They close Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, allowed British officers to be tried in other colonies when they commit crimes, and forced colonists to quarter soldiers. -
1st Continental Congress
September 5-October 26 1774
One delegate from each colony met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia to try and put a stop to Parliament’s Intolerable Acts. -
Midnight Ride: Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell, and William Dawes rode on horseback to Lexington yelling “The British are coming!” to warn Samuel Adams that the troops were coming to Lexington. -
Lexington and Concord
70 militiamen waited at Lexington while other colonists hid all of their supplies at Concord. By the time the redcoats reached Concord, all the gunpowder had already been moved. When the redcoats got to the Old North Bridge, more militiamen were waiting for them. They fired from behind trees and rocks. When the Loyalists got to Boston, 174 were wounded and 73 were dead. -
2nd Continental Congress
Also met in Philadelphia to manage colonial war efforts and increase movement to independence. They adopted the Declaration of Independence.
