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Stamp Act
Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
A proclamation of not settleing westward of the Appalachian. -
Townshend Acts
series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
a massicare which the british soliders attacked in armed civilian. -
Tea Act
Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London trade. -
Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipm -
1st Continental Congress
forming a shadow revolutionary government and establishing militias to resist the increasing British military presence across the colony. -
Lexington and Concord
skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials, marking the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Midnight Ride: Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
rode to lexington and concord to save the weapons and tell them to distract. -
2nd Continental Congress
Throughout most of colonial history, the British Crown was the only political institution that united the American colonies. -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
