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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Peace of Paris was signed on February 10, 1763. It was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain with Portugal in agreement. This ended the French and Indian War after Britain defeated France. France lost all of its colonies in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were angered by this order because they just finished the war for fighting over thie land. This then led to the American Revolution. -
Taxes Were Raised
Britain raised taxes on the American colonies in order to pay for the damages caused by the French and Indian War. Many of the colonies believed that they were not directly represented in the distant Parliament, any laws it passed the colonists were illegal under the Bill of RIghts of 1689. These taxes included the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Actd and the Tea Act. -
Sugar Act
Raised revenue by increasing duties on sugar imported from the West indies. Modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act. Becuase of corruption they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax - that the English products would be cheaper than the French West Indies products. Reduced the right of tax on molasses but it also listed more foreign goods to be taxed. The situation disrupted the colonial economy becuase it reduced the markets that the colonists could sell to. -
Currency Act
Parliament argued that colonial currency had caused a devaluation harmful to British trade. They banned American assemblies from issuing paper bills or bills of credit. This had caused currency shortage in the colonies. Colonists protested against this. -
Townshed Acts
The Townshed Acts were four acts passed by the British Parliament to try to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. The British American colonists named the acts after their sponsorer, Charles Townshend. -
Boston Masacre
British soldiers shoot and kill 5 colonists after being attacked by an angry anti-tax mob in Boston. The colonists threw snowballs and stones at the soldiers before they started firing guns. The soldiers were prosecuted for murder but found "not guilty." John Adams defended the British at the trial and was released. It was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War, and led to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston.It would soon bring rebellion. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place when members of "Sons of Liberty" protested the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. King George III says that the colonists are in a state of rebellion and sends more soldiers to enforce laws. This is going to anger the colonists and cause more tension. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament was fed up with colonial antics. The Boston Harbor was closed to trade until colonists paid for destroyed tea. Town meetings were banned, and the authority of the royal governor was increased. The Quebec Act recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec. Now an appointed council would make the major decisions for the colony, and the boundary of Quebec now extended into the Ohio Valley. This enraged colonists, and an intercolonial conference was called. -
Battle of Lexinton and Concord
First battle of American Revolution that occured when British troops leave Boston in search of weapons stored by Sons of Liberty, and to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. About 4,000 colonists attack the troops on their way from Boston to concord and then back to Botson after being warned by Paul Revere. Americans had 90 casualties and the British 273.
