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Treaty of Paris 1763
The treaty ended the French-Indian war.
Marks the start of an era where the British dominated outside of Europe. -
Proclamation Act
This act forbided any settlers to go past the Appalachian Mountains.
Eventually ensured that British laws were enforced in Canada. -
Sugar Act
This act put taxes on sugar.
Raised colonists concern on the intent of the British Parliment. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act that forced colonists to let the British soldiers live with them instead of spending money on a place for them to stay.
Many colonists were unpleased to have to host a solidier who most of the time they were not a fan of. -
Stamp Act
Act by the Britih parliment placed on colonists that aquired revnue by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents in the colonies -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting that took place in New York from October 7th to the 25th.
It was the first gathering of elected represenatives and the came up with a plan to protest the new British taxation. -
Declaration of Rights and Greivances
This declaration declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
It also says how the only people to enforce taxes on the colonies can be the colonies themselves, not the British. -
Stamp Act Repealed
The Stamp Act was repealed because the colonists decided to boycott everything that Britian tried to tax.
The vote to repeal the Stamp Act was won 276-168 -
Declatory Act
Act that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend acts of 1767
Taxes on glass, lead, tea, paints, paper etc introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767 -
Boston Massacre
The so called "Massacre" which resulted in only four deaths and was caused by a small riot in Boston. It was blown out of proportion by newspapers and caused outrage in the colonies. -
Comitee of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were governments organized by the Patriot leaders. This occured on the eve of the american revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was supposed to help reduce the massive surplus of tea in the British East India Company warehouses located in London -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty disguised as native americans raided a British supply ship and dumped all the tea into the boston harbor. The britsh parliment was outraged and this was considered the first act of rebellion against british rule -
Intolerable Acts
The American Patriots named a series of laws placed on them by the Britsish after the Boston Tea Party.
This act took away Massachusetts' self-government and historic rights. -
1st Continental Congress
The 1st Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It was a meeting set up in response to the new Intolerable Acts. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the revolutionary war. Tipped off british soldiers march into lexington and concord looking for hidden guns and find a group of militia men. Nobody knows who fired the first shot but it sparked the war -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle between the British and four of the American Colonies.
The battle took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts. -
Declaration of rights and grievances
A dcument written by the stamp act congress declaring taxes imposed by British parliment without colonist consent are unconstitutional -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76. It inspired the colonists to declare war on Britan -
Declaration of Independence
This document was written making the thirteen colonies their own nation seperate from Britan. The declaration was signed by 56 delegates including Thomas Jefferson and John Hanckock
