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End of French and Indian War
The conflict that started the French and Indian War was over the Ohio River valley. The French and British both wanted it for the fertile land that it offered. The French get kicked out of North America and they lost evryhitng they had in the Americas.England gained all of Canada and everything West of Mississsippi River and gained Florida. Spain lost Florida but gained everything East of Mississippi River. -
Sugar Act
This act reduced the tax on molasses. The Sugar Act was strictly enforced. It effected the colonists because they ended up paying more taxes. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on the colonists that added a fee to printed materials like newspaper and legal documents. Then the colonists reacted, saying that the Stamp Act was an attempt to raise money in the colonies without the approval of colonial legislatures. -
Quartering Acts
Following the French and Indian war, the British maintained a standing army in the colonies. This act required colonial assemblies to house and provision the soldiers. This upset the colonists because yet again, Parliment was saying that they had to house these soldiers rather then ask and gather their conscent, which the colonists would have prefered, which made them rebell against this act. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act repealed the Stamp act but said that it was Parliament's right to rule the colonies as they wanted. The colonists were outraged because the Declatory Acts hinted that there would be more acts to come. The colonists responded by protesting that Britain did not have the right to tax them. because they belived it was not fair, and that they should exclude that law. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were an import taxes on a variety of goods that were collected to support royal officials in the colonies, removing the responsibility form the colonial assemblies. Which upset the colonists and lead to a protest which said not to import British goods.The Non-importation agreement slowly grew to include merchants in all of the colonies, with the exception of New Hampshire. Then within a year importation from Britain dropped almost in half. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was made to save the East India Tea Company. Even though it lowered the price of tea, it made the company a monopoly and threatened the business of colonial importers.The reaction of the colonists to the Tea Act came as a shock to the British.By them buying the tea it meant that the colonists had accepted paying the British import tax. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.The citizens of Boston not only viewed this act as unnecessary and cruel but the Intolerable Acts drew the hate against Britain even more. As a result, even more colonists wanted to go against Britain. -
Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, in September 5th, 1774. The delegates wanted to make the King and Parliament understand the grievances of the colonies and that the body must make an effort to possibley communicate to the population of America, and this affected the people because it shows them standing up for themselves, now that they were fed up with the King and Parliment not listening to them and just doing whatever they wanted. -
Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was fought on April 19, 1775, and it kicked off the American Revolutionary War. The tensions had been building for many years between the colonists and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts which led to this very important battle.
