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Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump a bunch of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor. -
Signing of the Treaty of Paris
Ending the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George Washington prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. -
Sugar Act
The first attempt to finance the defence of the colonies by the British Government -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal documents -
Quartering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Stamp Act Congress
representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament finalizes the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies -
Townsend Revenue Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket cauing a riot -
Tea Act
In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
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Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. -
Continental Congress appoints George Washington commander-in-chief of Continental Army
Issued $2 million bills of credit to fund the army. -
Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence
the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
British surrender of 5,700 troops at Saratoga
Lacking supplies, 5,700 British, German and loyalist forces under Major General John Burgoyne surrender to Major General Horatio Gates in a turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Jefferson get elected