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Colonial Unrest
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Treaty of Paris 1763
Great Britain, France, and Spain, with the agreement from Portugal signed the treaty on February 10th 1763. Britain established the treaty after they won the French and Indian war. -
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
The Pontiac's Rebellion begins with an alliance of Native American warriors that attack the British force at Detroit. The Pontiac’s forces Were not able to take the fort in there first attempt. They tried to begin a siege that lasted for months. -
Proclamation of 1763
The King and his council presented the proclamation to make the Indians less frightened because they believed that colonists would keep expanding to the west. The proclamation separated and closed off boarders to colonial expansion. The proclamation also said that all land west of the beginning of rivers that flowed into the Atlantic Ocean could not be used for farm land for the colonists. -
Sugar Act
Modified version of the Molasses Act in 1733. The Act was strict to colonial trade and Britain did not want the colonists trading with other countries like France and Spain. The British did not want them trading with anyone else because they were debt from the war. -
Stamp Act
A new tax system that the British put on the colonists because they were in serious debt from the French and Indian war. They put taxes on stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles. -
Quartering Act
The colonists were required to house and feed any British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonists. If the Barracks were ever too small, the soldiers had to move to other places to stay such as local inns, stables, different houses, and the cellars of houses. The colonists did not like how they were commanded to provide housing for the soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament charged more taxes without angering the colonists in order to control them and the colonies. The act declared the Parliament’s proper way to legislate the colonies. The purpose was to claim Parliament’s control over the incidents of the colonies. -
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Townshead Act
In order to reconstruct the colonies, England taxed the colonists on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. England would have to raise £40,000 a year to regain the money. This act was based on some of the ideas from the Stamp Act. -
Tea Act
Final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. England sends a surplus of cheap tea to the colonies, which technically made tea cheaper. Colonists did not like England's attempt to control one of their most used commodity. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty speak into British Tea ships and dump cargo into Boston and dumped the equivalent of 4 million dollars worth of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Britain closed the port of Boston until the Tea was paid for and took away Massachusetts right to self-govern. -
1st Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonies gathered to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts. They decided to boycott and meet again a year later.