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The Treaty Of Paris
The treaty of paris signing ended the French and Indian war. The French had given up all of its territories in mainland North America. -
The Proclamation Act
The end of the war brought new opportunities for the colonists. The King put up a royal proclamation which had closed down the colonial expansion westward into the territory that they had gotten form the French. -
The Sugar Act
The Parliament in England had passed a different version of the Sugar/ Molasses Act that was created in 1733. This new version made the colonists pay a 6% tax for every gallon of molasses. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was that the colonies had to house British soldiers and give them any food, water or any other thing they may need. The soldiers would stay in local inns, and houses that sold wine. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was to make the American colonist pay for every piece of paper that they used. They had to put stamps on ships's papers, documents, licenses, and newspapers. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was the first congress meeting the the American Colonies. It was held in New York City and it had some represetatives from of the north american colonies -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The delegates of the first continental congress made several major decisions and some got sent to the king. The assemblies had tried to get the right of the people back from the king -
Stamp Act Pepealed
Afer four months of protest in America the bristish parlement repeals the stamp act. When they first put the stamp act into process the colonies protested. -
Declaratory Act
the declaratory act was ccompanied by the repeal of the stamp act. it was also with the changing of the supar act -
Townshend Act
the act originated by the man Charles Townshend and the parlement passed it. it put customs on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. -
Boston Massacre
the colonists were throwing stones and snow balls at the british soldiers. many of the colonists wre kill during the fight. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Virinia house proposed a standing committee for the intercolonial correspondence. within a year they had a network and more committees were made at the town and county. -
The Tea Act
England putting a taxation on tea was the last straw for the colonies. The tea act was what cause the Boston tea party -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist were mad that the British put a tea tax that they went abord a tea ship and dumped crates of tea into the harbor. It was discribed as the distruciton of tea by John Adams. -
Intolerable acts
This act was passed just to punish the colonists for the boston tea party. this act involed three big acts that really angered the colonists -
1st Continental Congress
this was the first meeting but only 12x of the 13 colonies came to it. the meeting was held in carpenters hall in philadelphia pennsylvania. -
Lexington and concord
the colonists defeated 700 british soldiers and it got them ready for the up coming battles. Paul Revere told the colonists to get ready becaue the british were coming. -
Bunker HIll
this was early in the revolutionary war and the british won this battle. even after losing this the colonist had a big confidence booster because they killed may enemy soldiers. -
The olive branch petiton
this was adopted by the second continental congress. it was the final attemp to avoid a full on war. -
Common Sense
this book was written by Thomas Paine. he wrote this book because it challenged the authority of the Bristish goverment and the King. -
Declaration of Independence
the signing of the declaration of independece was big for american history it changed to course of the country. the people that signed it would be known as the fathers of the country
