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Proclamation
This document was sent to the Colonists’ by the King and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Even the proclamation was settled in the colony; the colonists continued to move west onto Native American lands. -
Sugar Act
The purpose of lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies. The colonies were disagreeing more and more about the how colonies should be taxed and governed. -
Stamp Act
They were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers. -
Quartering Act
They were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers. -
Repeal of Stamp Act
The British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies. the Stamp Act Congress a group of people from nine colonies came together to form a statement protesting the Stamp Act -
Townshend Act/Duties
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. The Townshend Acts contributed to the colonists' angry reaction. -
Boston Massacre
The massacre was presenting it as a British attack on defenseless citizens. The colonist attacked a British customs schooner that patrolled the coast for smugglers. -
Tea Act
It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Indians dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company’s into the water of Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament responded by passing a series of measures of the colony. Colonists had refused to pay for the damaged tea -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts. The colonists lots many minutemen and they were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and the King -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Its was first great battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. The last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of Independent against British
