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Peace of Paris
Along with the Treaty of Hubertusburg, the Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years' War.It was signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It marked the era of British dominance outside Europe and was made possible by teh British victory over Span and France. The Treaty of Hubertusburg was signed five days later. -
Sugar Act Passed
The sugar Act was also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act. It was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, and its purpose was to increase revenue. The ides came for the Mollases Act in 1733, which failed in the sence that the tax was never effectively colleced. With the Sugar Act, the British reduced the rate and tried to change how the taxing was enforced in the hopes that it would be collected. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act imposed directly on the colonies of British America. It required that many of the colonies printed materials be put on stampted paper that was produced in London with a revenue stamp on in. This paper was used for legal documents, newspapers, mgazines, and other ttypes of material used throught the colonies. The tax could not be paid in colonial paper money, but valid British currency. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was issued by the Parliament of Great Britain. This act ordered that the colonials made sure that the British soldeirs were provided with food and housing. It was renued by pariament annualy as well as the Mutiny Act. This Act created tension between London and the colonies. -
Stamp Act Repealed
When Parliament met in December 1765, they rejected a resolution offered by Grenville, who had been replaced ealier in the year. Edmund Burke organized London merchants to start a committee of correspondence to support repeal of the Stamp Act. They did this by contacting their local reps. in Parliament concerning repeal. When Pariamant met again in January, Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal. -
Declaratory Act
Also know as the American Colonies Act, the Declaratory Act was set in by Parliament and accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. The declaration said that Britains authority was the same in England as in America and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
They were a series of acts passed in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain for the colonies. These acts were named after Charles Townshend who was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and also proposed the program. Townshend Acts were to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule.Also to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was also known as the Incident on King Street. It was an attack by the British Army soldiers killing five civilian men and injured six others. The British troops had been stationed in Boston. there was already tension and a mob formed around a British sentry who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. He was supported by 8 other soldiers, they fired into the crowed and instantly killed three people. -
Regulator Movement quelled in North Carolina
Also known as the War of the Regulation, was basically a North Carolina uprising. Citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials, and although they lost, many believe this was a catalyst to the RIt was stimulated by the dramatic increase of population in North Carolina. -
Gaspee Incident
The Gaspée Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspée, a British customs schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, ran aground in shallow water, near what is now known as Gaspee Point in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island, while chasing the packet boat Hannah. In a notorious act of defiance, a group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship. -
Committees of Correspondence
This committee was established in Boston and was made up of a group of colonists. The creating of this committee would eventually lead to their own Provincial Congresses in most of the colonies. In two years, the Provincial Congresses or their equivalents rejected the Parliament and effectively replaced the British ruling apparatus in the former colonies, culminating in 1774 with the coordinating First Continental Congress. -
Tea Act
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 and to help the struggling company survive. It was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid, thus implicitly agreeing to accept Parliament's right of taxation. -
Paxton Uprizing
The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion. They are widely known for murdering 20 Susquehannock in events collectively called the Conestoga Massacre -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. 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. -
Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts or the Intolerable Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution.Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 .The British Parliament hoped these punitive measures would. -
First Continental Congress meets
In Philadelphia, Adams promoted colonial unity while using his political skills to lobby other delegates.[153] On September 16, messenger Paul Revere brought Congress the Suffolk Resolves, one of many resolutions passed in Massachusetts that promised strident resistance to the Coercive Acts. Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, issued a Declaration of Rights that denied Parliament's right to legislate for the colonies, and organized a colonial boycott known as the Continental Association. -
Women sign for Boycott of goods
Women contributed to the American Revolution in many ways, and were involved on both sides. While formal Revolutionary politics did not include women, ordinary domestic behaviors became charged with political significance as Patriot women confronted a war that permeated all aspects of political, civil, and domestic life. They participated by boycotting British goods, spying on the British, following armies as they marched, washing, cooking, tending for soldiers, and delivering secret messages. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought , in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, 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. -
American War od Independence
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the United States, France, Netherlands and Spain on the other. The main result was an American victory, with mixed results for the other powers. -
Signing of Declaration
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit to produce the final version. The Independence Day of the United States of America is celebrated Jul. 4.
