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Proclamation
The proclamation was issued by King George the third following the end of the French and Indian War. The purpose was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabalize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britian. It stated: "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom..." Also the only molasses not taxed is that from the british west native americans -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is the name of several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. -
Quatering Act
The Quatering is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britian. These Quatering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldeirs -
Stamp-Act
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The Act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Writs of Assistance
A writ of assistance is a written order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff, to perform a certain task. Historically, several types of writs have been called "writs of assistance -
Stamp Act Taken Away
Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” by also passing the Declaratory Act. This incident increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British. -
Declatory Act
The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program -
Townshend Acts Repealed
The colonists boyycott English goods to show they do not like to the taxes. England takes away the Townshend Act taxes. But keeps the tax on imported tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men -
Intolerable Act
It was punishment for the colonists for the boston tea party. The british had to close the harbor. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a act of the Parliament of Great Britian. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
