The colonists and their independence

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/07/1763	Proclamation	The proclamation was issued by King George the third following the end of the French and Indian War. The purpose was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabalize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade.
04/05/1764	Sugar Act	The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britian. It stated: "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom..." Also the only molasses not taxed is that from the british west native americans
09/01/1764	Currency Act	The Currency Act is the name of several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.
03/24/1765	Quatering Act	The Quatering is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britian. These Quatering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldeirs
11/01/1765	Stamp-Act	The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The Act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
11/20/1765	Writs of Assistance	A writ of assistance is a written order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff, to perform a certain task. Historically, several types of writs have been called "writs of assistance
03/17/1766	Stamp Act Taken Away	Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” by also passing the Declaratory Act. This incident increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British.
03/18/1766	Declatory Act	The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
06/29/1767	Townshend Act	The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program
03/01/1770	Townshend Acts Repealed	The colonists boyycott English goods to show they do not like to the taxes. England takes away the Townshend Act taxes. But keeps the tax on imported tea.
03/05/1770	Boston Massacre	The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men
12/01/1773	Intolerable Act	It was punishment for the colonists for the boston tea party. The british had to close the harbor.
12/16/1773	Tea Act	The Tea Act was a act of the Parliament of Great Britian. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses.
12/16/1773	Boston Tea Party	The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history,
04/19/1774	Lexington and Concord	The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
09/05/1774	First Continental Congress	The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.