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French Sign the Treaty of Paris
The French and Indian war was apart of the Hundred Years war. It was a fight between the French and the Indians against the Britsh from 1755 to 1763 over the Ohio River Valley Territory. The war ended with the French losing and having to sign all of their claims to North America over to the Spanish and the British. The British kept Canada, the Great Lakes country, the Ohio River Valley and Flordia. The Spanish got all the land west of the Mississippi River. -
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The Steps Towards Freedom
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The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a line drawn after the French and Indian War infront of the Appalachian Mountains that forced the Colonists to stay east and not go west of them. This angered the colonists because they faught for that land and the Bristsh weren't allowing them to go there. -
The Quartering Act
The Qautering Act was a law passed by Parliament that forced Colonists to house British soldiers in their homes. It also forced the Colonists to provide food and clothing for the slodiers. This angered the Colonists because the soldiers would take advantage of the act by staying in the Colonists homes even during peace times. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, which is also know as the American Revenue Act, was a tax passes on foreign refined sugars imported into the American Colonies. It was passed on April 5, 1764 so that the British sugar growers could have a monopoly over the sugar industry in the Americas and to raise money for the Britsh debt. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act also came in occurance with the end of the French and Indian War. Britsih Parliament approved the Stamp Act to raise money for the National debt in Britain. It called for any document to have a stamp. After eing approved in November, it met intense opposition and was repealed in March of 1766. -
The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts was a series of laws named after a British Treasurer, Charles Townshend. They passed new taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The British government eventually repealed all taxes except for the one on tea. This lead to violent outbursts such as the Boston Tea Party. -
The Nonimportation Agreement
In the fall of 1767, the Colonists grew sick of the Townshend Act, which was a tax on goods imported into the Colonies. The Nonimportation Agreement said that the Cononists would not import any goods from Great Britain. This harmed Britain's revenue severely. -
The Boston Massacre
The story of the Boston Massacre has many different sides. The British said that American Colonists were throwing rocks and snoballs at British soldiers. Even though the soldiers told them to stand down, the Colonists continued to provoke the soldiers until they finally opened fire, killing five colonists. The Boston Massacre was used as propaganda by the Colonies depicting a group of unarmed Colonists being massacre by British soldiers. -
The Boston Tea Party
Concealed by the darkness of night, about fifty colonists, dressed as Indians, boarded three British tea ships in the Boston Harbor. They took control of the ship and threw over 90,000 pounds of tea over the sides of the ships, into the harbor. This event is what lead the British to not appeal the tea act, even though they eventually repeal many other acts. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were also known as Coercive Acts in Britian. They were a series of acts that either restricted the colonists from doing something or taxed them on others. Those acts included Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act and Quebec Act. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord started with tensions between England and it's colonies. It took place in Bosten, Massechusettes in 1775. British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, but both men had been warned about the British attack. The night of April 18th, Paul Revere rode through Concord warning everybody about the British attack. So when the British came in to take and attack the Rebels, the Minutemen, Americans who w
