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The Proclamation of 1763
The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier -
Boston Massacre
The killing of 5 American colonists by British Regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the american colonies that has been growig sense royal troops first appeared in massachusettes to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the townshed Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
A gropu of colonists protestthirteen years of increasing British opression, by attacking merchant shpis in the boston harbor. In retaliation the British closed the port and inflict even harsher penalties -
The Intolerable Acts
The American Patriot's Name for a series of punative laws passed by the British Parliament afyter the boston tea party. They were meant to punish the massechusettes for the defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into the harbor -
Salutary Neglect
Was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on American colonies late in the Seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer,in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle At Lexington And Concord
kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Challenged the authority in the British government and th royal monarchy.Spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence frolm Great Britain -
The Signing of The Declaration of Independence
, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence -
States pass the Article of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy. -
Winter at Valley Forge
British troops had marched triumphantly into Philadelphia the previous autumn. Philadelphia was the largest city in the Colonies and the seat of political power. After the British swept into Philadelphia, the Continental Congress had flee to west, first to Lancaster then to York. -
Surrender at Yorktown
British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War.
