Taxes and Responses

  • Proclamation of 1763

    King George lll issued a proclamation that forbade the settlement of the Appalachians mountains of the west.
  • Sugar Act

    The purpose of lowering tax on molasses to have importers buy from British colonies instead of the French and Spanish colonies.
  • 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.
  • Stamp Act

    Imposed on all colonists and required to pay tax on all printed paper they used.
  • Quartering Act

    provide provision and housing for the British soldiers stationed in the 13 colonies.
  • Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Act was attached towards resources like glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
  • Boston Massacre

    Five Colonists were killed by the British soldiers on March 5, 1770
  • Tea Act

    Bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from undergoing bankruptcy.
  • Boston Tea Party

    A group of colonist protesting of the increasing of British oppression, by attacking the merchant ships in Boston Harbor.
  • French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
  • Intolerable Act

    This Act was Harsh towards the American colonists for the boston tea party and other protests havoc.
  • First Continental Congress

    In Philadelphia, the First Continental Congress organized the colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • Second Continental Congress

    It managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Was the First battle of the Revolutionary War
  • Declaration of Independence

    Established the protection of alienable rights and the colonies from the British parliament.