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First Navigation Laws
Navigation Acts(Wikipedia)First navigation laws to control colonial commerce were set in place by the British monarchy. These Navigation Acts were continually declared as the decades go on, continually strengthening Britain's grasp on colonial trade and navigation of the Atlantic. -
Board of Trade Assumes Governance
Board of Trade(Wikipedia)The 'Board of Trade', appointed by the King, was created to promote trade of colonial exports. Members of a separate body than the Privy Council, they carried on their work with long periods of inactivity, until the Board of Trade was abolished in 1782. -
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress(Wikipedia)The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament, the Congress was atten -
Seven Years' War Ends
Seven Years' War(Wikipedia)Also the French and Indian War, it ended on February 10th, 1763 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The war concluded with an estimated 1.4 million casualties. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act(Wikipedia)The Sugar Act imposed a tax on all colonial sugar. Places upon for the purpose of paying for Britain's losses from the preceding Seven Years' War. This tax on the colonies was one of the acts of oppression which would eventually lead to the American Revolution. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act(Wikipedia)Quartering Act is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. These Quartering Acts were used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British soldiers had adequate housing and provisions. These acts were amendments to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament. The act had been put in place to provide Quarter for all British troops -
Stamp Act Congress
Stamp Act Congress(Wikipedia)The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting on October 19, 1765 in New York City of representatives from among the Thirteen Colonies. They discussed and acted upon the Stamp Act recently passed by the governing Parliament of Great Britain overseas, which did not include any representatives from the colonies. Meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall, the Congress consisted of delegates from 9 of the -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act(Wikipedia)The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) 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 and carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act(Wikipedia)The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to make laws binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts(Wikipedia)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 for Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five laws are frequently mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New -
British Troops Occupy Boston
Boston Massacre(Wikipedia)British troops were sent to Boston in 1768 to help officials enforce the Townshend Acts, a series of laws passed by the British Parliament. The purpose of the Townshend program was to make colonial governors and judges independent of colonial control, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, and to establish the controversial precedent that Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Townshend Acts Repealed
Townshend Acts(Wikipedia)On 5 March 1770— the same day as the Boston Massacre—Lord North, the new Prime Minister, presented a motion in the House of Commons that called for partial repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre(Wikipedia)The Boston Massacre, also known as the Boston riot, was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party(Wikipedia)The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. 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, and oth -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts(Wikipedia)The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 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. -
The Association
Continental Association(Wikipedia)The Continental Association, often known simply as the "Association", was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain. Congress hoped that by imposing economic sanctions, Great Britain would be pressured to redress the grievances of the colonies, and in particular repeal the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament. -
Committees of Correspondence
Committees of Correspondance(Wikipedia)The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1774-75 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. The Maryland Committee of Correspondence was instrumental in settin -
First Continental Congress Calls for Abolition of Slave Trade
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Quebec Act
Quebec Act(Wikipedia)The Quebec Act of 1774 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III c. 83) setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. Among the procedures, the Protestant religion being exempt from the anthem, and the free practice of the Catholic religion. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Lexington and Concord(Wikipedia)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 K -
World's First Antislavery Society
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Articles of Confederation
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Massachusetts Adopts Democracy
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Annapolis Convention
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