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Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris of Feb. 10, 1763, was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain. Together with the treaty of Hubertusburg, This was the first signed Treaty of Paris out of two.It ended the French and Indian war. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was created October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's 'thing' of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which didn't let all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Normal papers, documents, licenses, newspapers, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of the arlier battle they didnot have the money for. -
Quartering Act
On May 3, 1765 the British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in homes and if there wasn't enough space in homes then they were to be quartered in huts and inns. Inns are like old hotels or huts. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts put it on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea put into the colonies. They hoped the acts would lower expenses in the colonies, but many Americans saw the taxes as a thing where the king wanted money so he taxed them. Resulting in the passage of agreements to limit recivings from Britain. In 1770, they repealed all the Townshend taxes except the tax on tea, -
Boston Massacre
The Massacre was in 1770, it was like a pre revolutionary war. The whole thing started with like a snowball getting thrown at a litle boy. There was 5 colonists killed in the Boston Massacre. There was shooting and snowball fighting. (WHICH TO ME SOUNDS CHILDISH FOR WAR OFFICERS) When somebody came to introduce the taxes to the colonies nobody liked it so they got mad and so on the event went. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed on May 10, 1773, gave the British East India Company Tea a deal on tea sales in the American colonies. This was what started a group of 'Sons of Liberty' members on the night of December 16, 1773 to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians, board three ships in Boston Harbor, and destroy over 92,000 pounds of tea. -
Boston Tea Party
A hundred men dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped the tea into the harbor. Off of the three ships, Beaver, Eleanor, and Dartmouth. They dumped 342 crates. All because of Britian taxing everything those poor colonies really owned. Who would want to drink a glass of tea knowing you would have to pay a dime for the glass to use and pay another for the tea itself. That's not what I would want to know. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition, that was drafted on July 5, 1775, was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which kida says the last attempt by the 'moderate party' in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain. -
Common Sense Document
On this day in 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his notebook kinda thing “Common Sense,” setting forward his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, Pamphlets were an important thing for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries. -
Declaration of Independence
Independence was declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final draft of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776. Giving Independence to the Americans. Wheatley wrote poems during the war that started because of this! GO CONTINENTAL ARMY!!! -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by some people of King George III of Great Britain and some people of the United States on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. This was the second Treaty of Paris out of two. This one was not the one that ended the Fench and Indian war.
