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Treaty of Paris of 1763
ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Placed a tax on almost all printed material -
Declaratory Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
A law to keep the British East India Company from going out of buisness -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
the American Patriots' term for 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. -
1st Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Midnight Ride: Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
Revere, Dawes, and Cheswell warn the "The British are coming!" -
Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
2nd Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
