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French and Indian War
French and Indian War was from 1754 to 1763. Was called the 7 year war. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion was from 1763 to 1766. -
Proclamation
George III had stopped all the settlement mving West of the Appalachian Mountains without the guarentees of security from the Native Americans nations. -
Sugar Act
The cononists had to smugle sugar and other ingridients to make rum for them and others. The taxes on molasses were dropped. They were all takin gbig risks smugling the suger and other ingridients in to make more rum and use these things for multiple uses. -
Stamp Act
Parliment had required all newspapers and phamplets to have watermarked, or stamped paper. The colonists were very unsaticfied with how they needed to use the stamp act on everything they had used. -
Qaurtering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Stamp Act Congress
From the 7th to the 25 of October. Parliment votes to repeal the stam act. The Representatives from 9 of the 13 colonies had declared the stamp act unconstintutional. -
Declatory Act
Parliament finalises the repeal of the stamp act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies. -
Townshend 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. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Boston Tea Party
A lot of the people were mad about the tea act. So the Americans had starting dumping all of the tea into the Boston Harbor while they were dressed as Mohawk Indians. This was a revolt againts the taxes on the tea that they had bought and they were againts that fact so they started dumping it into the Harbor. -
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 resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company. This was to tax the colonists for the tea they buy. -
Intolerable Act
From May to June. 4 measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
First Continental Congress
From 9-51774 to 10-26-1774. Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. -
Treaty of Paris