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Dec 16, 1173
Boston Tea Party
The cause was the attempted implementation of the Tea Act (placing a tax on tea and creating a monopoly on the tea source). The effect was the passing of the first of the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Port Act. The Boston Port Act closed the Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for. However, this act single-handily united all thirteen colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
By King George lll followng Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North American after the end of the French and Indian WAr/Seven Year's War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The stamp Act was imposed on the colonies for England to get much needed money. Items could only be sold with a Tax stamp on the item. Parliament needed the money in 1765 to pay for the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The colonies boycotted English manufcatures forced Parliament to drop the Stamp Tax. Parliament said they could pass and act anytime they wanted to, the colonies ignored the threat. -
Quatering Act
Aname given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Britain thought the colonists did not pay them taxes. The colonists were angry about these taxes and protested.
France didnt like Britain, Because the colonsits won at Saratoga, France thought tht Contiental Army could win the war and decided to openly help the colonists fight. France and the colonies formed an alliance. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Townshend Act
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Boston Masacre
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First Cotiental Congress
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Lexington & Concord
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Battle of Saratoga
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Battle of Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris