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The Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation by King George III which prevented the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Divide.
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An act passed by British legislation attempting to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses into the colonies from the French and Dutch.
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An act preventing the use of any new colonial money and reinstating the use of British money.
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an act that required most printed materials in the colonies to have a stamp that would be collected and exchanged for a tax.
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An act that required the colonists to build or give up space for British soldiers.
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An act which stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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A series of acts which placed taxed on various goods imported to America.
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The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers killed five men by opening fire on a group of American colonist dockworkers.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the implication of taxes without consent from the colonists, where protestors dumped large amounts of tea into the harbor that was imported by the East India Trading Company.
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An act that closed the port of Boston and demanded the colonists pay a large amount of money for all the tea destroyed in the Boston tea party.
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An act that esentially allowed British officials to get away with capital offenses in the colonies.
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An act that gave the royally-appointed governor of Massachusetts lots of power that other colonist officials didn't have.
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Delegates from each of the colonies met in Philedelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts put in place by the Parliament as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first of many true battles fought between the American colonists and the British, beginning the Revolutionary War.
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An act that gave land and religious freedom to the American colonies former enemies from the French and Indian War, but not to the colonists.
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Delegates from each colony met again, raised the Continental Army, and created the Declaration of Independence.
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A battle in Massachusetts where the Americans were defeated during the Siege of Boston. The British later evacuated boston after realising that it was practically defenseless against the Americans.
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The Declaration of Independence was a document written largely by Thomas Jefferson, which stated that the colonists were breaking away from England. This is when the document was made official.
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The Battle of Saratoga was a crucial victory for the Continental Army, boosting their morale and persuading the French, Dutch and Spanish to join them.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the battle in which the American colonists won the revolutionary war. Sandwiched in between French and American forces, the British surrendered to General Washington.
