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Quartering Act
British parliament passed the quartering act. This act made colonial authorities provide food, drink, fuel, transportation, and shelter to the British forces. -
French and Indian War
Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. In 1754, George Washington led an army against the French. -
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French and Indian War
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French and Indian War ends
Ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War -
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Sugar Act starts
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon -
Stamp act
King George issued the stamp act to pay for the French and Indian war, it basically meant that every piece of paper had to have a stamp for people to conduct legal business. The colonies should have a representitive in parlamant but England wouldn't give them one. -
Quartering Act End
The colonists to provide housing, bedding and sustenance to British soldiers stationed in America, it was bound to cause trouble. -
Stamp Act End
People in the colonies coudln't conduct legal buisness because they didn't have any stamps to put on their papers and they couldn't buy any because the rebels either burned them or locked them up,. The ending of the Stamp Act might have postponed the American Revolution. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
English Parliament decided to cut British land taxes
In order to make up for the difference and to continue to finance their troops in the Colonies, Charles Townshend, the British Treasurer, promised he would tax the colonists. -
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Repealed the Townshend Act -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately -
Committees of correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company -
Boston Tea Party
116 people participated in the dumping of 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. This event had a ripple effect, and soon many other tea parties happened in other colonies -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series 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 in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of 12 delegates of the American colonies at Carpenters Hall, Phillaphiea, Pennsylvania. It was in response of the Intolerable Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions