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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the French and Indian War between the French and British. This treaty was signed in favor of the British. French had lost all of their land in the North. Spain got all of the French's land west pf the Mississippi River. Europe had retrieved all of the French's land in Canada. Also, they successfully retrieved Florida and the Ohio River Valley. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), also known as the American Revenue Act, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. The enforced act on molasses had caused an immediate decline in the rum industry. Tha main goal was to raise revenue in order to pay for the debt of military costs from the war. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was put on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains during the French and Indian War. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a gesture of British Parliament reasserting its authority to pass taxes and laws on the colonies, even though they lacked any representation.
The Stamp Act of 1765 had backfired on the British Crown. The British were hoping to raise revenue by imposing the first direct tax on the colonies. However, the colonies began boycotting British goods, and stopped supporting activities that benefited the Crown. -
Townshead Acts
Originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when the British Army soldiers killed seven colonists and injured six other. It started in the streets with a "anti-tax" mob tossing snowballs, stones and sticks at British officers. British soldiers then shot in response, causing an arouse among the people. This fight was between colonists and British soldiers. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act passed by Parliament of Great Britain. It launches the final spark to the revolution in Boston. Its objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the British East india Company in their London warehouses. It was not supposed to raise revenue in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Massachusetts colonists, also known as the Sons of Liberty, dressed up in Native clothing and seized 342 chests of tea in the middle of the night. Then, together the group tossed the tea into the harbor. This is due to the protest of the importing of American tea to the East India Company. Because of the Tea Party, Boston Harbor had been closed and military rule was imposed in the colonists until all the tea was paid for. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were the Patriot names for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. King George III placed these acts on the colonists as punishment for the dumping of the tea in the harbor, also known famously as the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, but both men had been warned about the British attack. The night of April 18th, Paul Revere rode through Concord warning everybody about the British attack. When the British came in to attack and capture the Rebels, the Minutemen, Americans who were"ready to fight in a minute," were waiting to attack at Lexington. This became the first battle of the Revolution.
