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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger professional war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.The war did not begin for the British. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War which denied all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to end. Of the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of sixpence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on American colonists and they had to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other stuff, and also playing cards were taxed. -
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Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a group of two Acts of British Parliament in the nearby governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts, 1767, started by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament a little after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were created to collect amount from the colonists in America by putting duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The location of the incident was in front of the Customs House on King Street.The heavy military presence in the town that lead to the incident was the result of British enforcement of the Townshend Acts of 1767. There were 4,000 British troops and about 20,000 residents at the time of the incident. The day before the incident on March 4, 1770 dozens of Bostonians had clashed with British troops at John Gray's Ropewalk in the Fort Hill district. -
Tea Act
Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the big amount of tea that was held by the troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773 -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' meaning for a set 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 of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston.
