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Proclamation of 1763
The British issued the Proclamation of 1763 to limit the settlement of the territory North America. It prohibited colonist from moving West of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Parliament passed the Sugar Act. It is a law that stops muggling. It also lets officers sieze goods from sumgglers without going to court. -
Stamp Act
The Stmap Act placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies. All printed materials had to have a stamp. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a tragic encounter between the redcoats and the Bostons. They were fighting eachother. Officers tried to calm the crowd, but people were picking up whatever they could find to fight eachother. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act that gave the East India Company the rifht to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes. Another thing it allowed was the company to bypass colonial merchants and sell its tea directly to shopkeepers at a low price. That made their company very cheap tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
Three tea ships arrived at the Boston Harbor. A royal governor wouldn't let the ships turn back. The royal governor told people to unload the tea, they did. A group of men dressed up as Mohawks and armed with hatcherts went to the wharves. At 12:00 am they got on the ship and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
The Intolerable Acts
After the new got to London about the Boston tea Party the king and Parliament wanted to punish Boston. They passed the Coercive Acts, which was a harsh law that intended to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance. That act closed the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonist paid for the ruins. -
First Continental Congress meets
55 men arriced in the city of Philadelphia. The men had come to establish a political body represent American interests and challenges British controlled. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The redcoats came up to Lexington and noticed 70 minutemen. A shot fired... Then everyone started shooting. After all of the shooting was done and over with 8 minutemen were laying on the ground dead. -
New Taxes
After the Stamp Act crisis Parliament came up with a set of laws called the Townshend Acts. From this act the new taces appled only to the imported goods with the tax being paid at the port of entry. They did tac glass, tea, paper, and lead because the colonist did not produce them. People started to boycott again and it spread alot.
