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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the Frace and indian war and and Britian granted Britian land east of the Mississippi River. -
Pontiac's War Begins
An Indian tribe leader by the name Pontiac led his tribe Ottawa to attacks agianst the British forts near the Great Lakes. Eight of which were won. The British ultimately prevailed, and the Indians were forced to make peace. -
King George III signs the Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 declared that all land transactions made to the west of the Appalachian crest would be governed by the British government rather than by the colonies. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act lowered the import tax on foreign molasses in an attempt to deter smuggling, and placed a heavy tax on Madeira wine, which had traditionally been duty-free. The act mandated that many commodities shipped from the colonies had to pass through Britain before going to other European countries. -
The Stamp Act
enacted on November 1, 1765, the Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase watermarked, taxed paper for use in newspapers and legal documents. The Stamp Act was the first internal tax ever imposed on the colonies by Parliament and aroused great opposition. -
The Quartering Act
required colonial legislatures to pay for certain supplies for British troops stationed in each colony. -
The Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Resolves
The Virginia Resolves denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies under the Stamp Act, igniting opposition to the act in other colonial assemblies -
The Stamp Act Congress Meets in New York City
Colonial legislatures sent representatives to New York, there they agreed broadly that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies or to deny colonists a fair trial. -
The Stamp Act is Repealed
The response to colonial resistance, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, and passed the Declaratory Act on March 18, which states that Parliament may legislate for the colonies in all cases. -
Townshend duties are Enacted
The Townshend duties was the popular name for the collected import taxes imposed by the Revenue Act of 1767. The Revenue Act taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea entering the colonies. -
John Dickinson Publishes Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer
Dickinson's series of twelve letters are published in almost every colonial newspaper. The letters exhorted Americans to resist the Townshend duties, enumerating the political arguments against the constitutionality of the Revenue Act. -
February 11, 1768: Circular Letter Adopted by the Massachusetts House of Representatives
The circular letter, drafted by Samuel Adams and sent to all of the other colonial legislatures, condemned taxation without representation and decried British efforts to make royal governors financially independent of the elected legislatures as a further deprivation of representative government. -
Troops Begin to Land in Boston
The response to growing political unrest in Massachusetts Britain sent troops to occupy the city in the final months of 1768.The tensions mounted between the troops and civilians. -
The Boston Massacre
Troops in Boston squared off with a crowd of sailors which were led by Crispus Attucks. When the crowd knocked one soldier to the ground, the soldiers fired and killed 5 men. -
The Townshend Duties are Repealed Under
Under financial pressure from the colonists' non-importation policy, Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except for the tax on tea. -
The Burning of the Gaspee
This act was an open of defiance against British rule, more than one hundred Rhode Island colonists burnt the corrupt customs ship Gaspee to the waterline after it runs aground near Providence -
Gaspée Affair
The Gaspée was a British schooner that enforced unfair trade regulations on colonial merchants. It ran aground in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. There colonists burned it. -
Samuel Adams Publishes the Letters of Thomas Hutchinson Through the Committees of Correspondence
Massachusetts' royal governor (Hutchinson) wrote in his letters, advocates "an abridgement of what are called British liberties," and "a great restraint of natural liberty" in the colonies. The publication of these letters convinces Americans of a British plot to destroy their political freedom. -
Intolerable Acts
After the French and Indian War the British Government decided to reap greater benefits from the colonies. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, this 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
