1763-1774

By manasiereddy

  • 1763

    -Treaty of Paris ended French and Indian War
    -Pontiac's War begins
    -Proclamation of 1763 is signed prohibiting colonization west of Appalachians

  • 1764

    -Sugar Act is passed

  • 1765

    -Stamp Act is passed
    -Quartering Act is placed requiring colonial legislatures to pay for supplies for stationed British troops
    -Virginia Resolves are passed denying Parliament's right to tax colonies under Stamp Act

  • 1766

    -Stamp Act is repealed

  • 1767

    -Townshend Duties are enforced imposing taxes on imported goods
    -"Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer" is published by John Dickinson encouraging Americans to resist Townshend duties

  • 1768

    -Circular Letter is adopted in Massachusetts condemning taxation without representation
    -British troops land in Boston due to political unrest

  • 1770

    -Boston Massacre occurs
    -Townshend Duties are repealed

  • 1772

    -The Burning of the Gaspee occurs as an act of defiance against British and resulted in more than 100 Rhode Island colonists burning the British ship, the Gaspee

  • 1773

    -Samuel Adams publishes the Letters of Thomas Hutchinson convincing Americans that British had a plot to destroy their political freedom
    -Tea Act put into effect

  • 1774

    -Intolerable Acts put into effect
    -Boston Boycott
    Battle of Point Pleasant