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Colonial Unrest
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Treaty of Paris 1763
Ended the Seven Year's War, signed by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It marked the beginning of an era of Britains dominance outside of Europe. -
Proclamation of 1763
Stopped the expansion past a line drawn on the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Colonial mecrhants were required to pay a tax on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
British Parliament imposed a stamp duty on newspapers, legal, commercial documents. The colonies opposition resulted in the act's repeal in 1766. This helped with the movement against the British rule in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
Multiple acts that required colonists to provide food and housing to soldiers. -
Declaratory
An act of parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Act
A series of acts passed by British Parliament. Due to widespread protests, parliament partially repealed the acts. -
Tea Act
A catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. It granted the British East India company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest in Boston by the Sons of Liberty. The demonstraters disguised themselves as mohawk indians. They destroyed an entire shipment of tea from the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of the Boston Tea Party. -
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1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies. They met to consider options for the colonies such as a boycott of British trade.