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Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge
sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies
and Great Britain.
England and France had been building toward a
problem in America since 1689.
These efforts ended in the remarkable growth of the colonies from a
population of 250,000
in 1700, to 1.25 million in 1750. -
Proclamation of 1763
The solution seemed simple. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued, which
declared the boundaries of settlement for inhabitants of the
13 colonies to be Appalachia. -
Stamp Act
For granting and applying certain stamp duties or others in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the
revolutionary movement in Boston.
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American
colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes.
It was
signed to prop up the East India Company which
was floundering financially and
burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
342 crates of tea were dumped into the ocean in response to the parliamentary act which were imposed reactions on the purchase of tea in the colonies
· Hardliners in the British government, looking for reasons to clamp down on the Bay colony,
found their cause last
December when the Sons of Liberty made a salty Darjeeling of Boston Harbor. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration is divided into three main parts.
The first was a simple statement of intent.
Jefferson's words echo down through the
decades of American life until the present day. Phrases like "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL," "unalienable rights," and "life, liberty, and
pursuit of happiness" have bounced from the
lips of Americans in grammar school and retirement.
