Unit 2 Timeline

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  • Treaty of Paris

    All French possessions east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, are given to the British.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited settlement West of the Appalachians.

  • The Currency Act

    Colonies cannot print their own money.

  • The Stamp Act

    British attempt to assert governmental control over the colonies.

  • Quartering Act

    British troops could stay anywere. People had to provide all nessecitys, the colonial assembly would pay for it.

  • Sugar Act

    To raise money to pay for the french/indian war. Taxed sugar and mollasses.

  • Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions

    Put a stop to the stamp acts

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Fought on Breeds Hill

  • The Declatory Act

    Cancelled many effects of the stamp act.

  • Townshend Acts

    Taxed tea, glass, leather, and paint.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Dropped half a million of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tea act.

  • Tea Acts

    Designed to save the East India Tea Company

  • Boston Port Act

    Part of the intolerable acts

  • Massachusetts Government Act

    Part of the intolerable acts. Tried to regulate the government in Massachusetts bay

  • Quebec Acts

    Trials must be tried in Quebec or Britain

  • First Continental Congress

    Met in Philadelphia

  • Battle of Lexington

    1,000 men in the battle 10 wounded 8 killed.

  • George Washington named commander in chief

    Of the continental army.

  • Commen Sence is published

    Written by Thomas Payne about the urge of finding independence.

  • Call for independence

    Richard Lee had proposal from the Virginia Assembly that called for freedom and independence.

  • Declaration of Independence Approved

    Approved by congress.