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Treaty of Paris (French and Indian war)
Ending the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America. France ceded all mainland North American territories, except New Orleans, in order to retain her Caribbean sugar islands. Britain gained all territory east of the Mississippi River; Spain kept territory west of the Mississippi, but exchanged East and West Florida for Cuba. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guaranty of security from local Native Americans. The intervention in colonial friendship offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. -
Sugar Act
In order to deter smuggling and to encourage the production of British rum, taxes on molasses were dropped, this lead to protests. -
Stamp Act
To repay their loans the government now had laws, that were unnaccepatable to some. -
Quartering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to agree -
Virginian Resolution
The Virginian assembly refused to agree with the Stamp Act. -
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Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent. Leading to rebels and more fights. -
Decleratory Act
Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies -
Townshed Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Leading to Taxation without representation. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial, a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians (Massacre). -
Tea Act
In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans though it was an indirect tax subsidising a British company. -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
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Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British stuff. -
Continental Congress
Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Lexington (Shot heard around the world)
First shot of the first military engagement. -
2nd Continantal Congress
$2 million bills of credit to fund the army. -
Battle of bunker hill
The first major battle of the War of Independence. -
Decleration of Independence
Title says it all. -
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Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
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Battle of Yorktown
The Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle