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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763, forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Tax on foreign molasses
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Colonies were required to provide British soldiers with any needed accommodations, housing, and food.
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Required colonists to pay a tax on almost all printed material.
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A document written by the Stamp Act Congress. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances stated that enforcing taxes on British colonists without consent is unconstitutional.
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First gathering of elected representatives from many of the colonies to devise a protest against British taxation.
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After months of protest, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act.
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The act stated that the British taxing was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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Imposed tax on glass, lead paint, paper and tea.
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5 colonists were killed by British soldiers
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Established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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Imposed a tax on tea
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Political protest by the Sons of Liberty, where British tea was dumped in the Boston harbor.
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Harsh laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies.
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Battle between the British and Americans, even though the Americans lose, they cause many casualties to the British.
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A petition that represented the colonists rights while keeping their loyalty to British rule.
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The Common Sense pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, consisted of his arguments for independence between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.
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The official document stating the thirteen colonies independence from Great Britain ,cutting all ties between them.
