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proclamation of 1763
It was at the end of French and Indian war.The Proclamation of 1763 as it is known, recognized that Indians owned the lands on which they were living and white people in the area were needed to be removed. However, position was made to allow specially licensed individuals and entities to operate fur trading ventures in the closed area. -
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Road to Revolution
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Quartening Act
Quartering act, In March 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment. Under the terms of this law, each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers to leave within its borders. -
Townshend Act
Charles Townshend was the businessman in the period following the repeal of the Stamp Act. Hoping to be higher his political career, he tackled the pressing problem of imperial finance. Riots in England convinced him that tax relief was needed at home, but he hoped to reduce the national debt by imposing taxes in the colonies. This made sense to Townshend and others because the recent French and Indian War had been fought on behalf of the colonies and had contributed mightily to the debt. -
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
In 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the English East India Company a chance to escape bankruptcy by giving them a monopoly on the importation of tea into the colonies. The new regulations allowed the company to sell tea to the colonists at a low price, lower than the price of smuggled tea, even including the required duty. The British reasoned that the Americans would willingly pay the tax if they were able to pay a low price for the tea. -
Intorable Act
The Intolerable Acts were popularly known in England, were introduced in 1774 by the new government of Lord North, who acted with the direct encouragement of George III. Several voices of caution had been raised in Parliament, particularly those of Edmund Burke and Lord Chatham, who feared that stern measures were charting a course no one really wanted to follow; their advice, however, was not heeded. This legislation's purpose was to restore order in Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Par -
Olive Branch Petition
In July 1775, the Second Continental Congress made a final effort to seek reconciliation with Britain and end the fighting. The chief advocate of this effort was John Dickinson, a conservative delegate from Pennsylvania, who authored the Olive Branch Petition.This appeal was directed to George III personally. It issued a sharp protest against repressive British policies and asked the king to halt the war, repeal the Coercive Acts and bring about reconciliation. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The early months in 1775 were a period of great anxiety in Massachusetts. The city of Boston housed a large contingent of British soldiers who nursed aversion with an more sad populace . Insults and fights between the two sides were commonplace. The tension was heightened by economic twist. The port of Boston had been closed in there for the earlier Tea Party and traditional forms of self-government had been replaced by royal authority. Many of the Patriot leaders feared arrest and had left the -
Decloration of Independence
In early 1776, American public opinion was deeply divided over the issue of declaring independence from Britain. A discernible drift toward independence was occurring, but the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and news of King George III’s decision to hire foreign mercenary soldiers to fight in America radicalized the views of many.On May 10, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution that urged the states to form their own independent governments to replace the defunct royal gover