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Period: to
American Revolution
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End of French and Indian War
- Treaty of Paris ended the war
- No more French power in North America, but they were allowed to keep the West Indian Islands and the French settlers stayed.
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Sugar Act
- Britain imposed new taxes between 1763 - 1767 -First law ever passed by Parliament raising tax revenue in colonies -Increased tax on sugar imports from West Indies to North American colonies
- Colonist were not happy and they protested and they were lowered
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The Currency Act
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Stamp Act
-Britain imposed new taxes between 1763 - 1767.
- This act passed on March 22, 1765.
-About fifty items needed stamps, including commercial and legal documents; marriage licenses, bills of lading, newspapers, pamphlets etc -
Quatering Act
-Act passed by George Grenville in 1765 requiring certain colonies to provide food and lodging to British soldiers stationed there
-Kept colonial resentment alive after Sugar Tax reduction -
Townshend Act
-These acts were a light tax on goods such as tea, paint, glass, white lead and paper payable in American ports
-Part of tax paid for royal governors' salaries -
Tea Act
The East India Company was allowed to sell the colonist tea for cheap, but they had to pay taxes on stuff they had not approved -
Boston Tea Party
-Bostonians disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
First Contenential Congress
-Convention held in Philadelphia to discuss colonial grievances, what to do about them.
- 12 colonies were represented by 55 delegates.
- Petitions rejected. -
Lexington and Concord
Took place right after Battle of Lexington.
-British attempt to seize colonial gunpowder, capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock
- Colonists prepared after Lexington, hid behind walls and shot British, pushed back to Boston. -
Bunker Hill
- Took place at Breed's Hill overlooking Boston with British staging a frontal attack. -The colonists slaughtered the British until they ran out of gunpowder, when they were forced to retreat. -They lost the batle
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Declaration of Independence
-The nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument
- List of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and their home country.
