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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Had to pay tax on every gallon of molasses imported.
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An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
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This act gave the power to let British solder's to any accommodations and housing. It also required that the home owner had to feed the solder's as well.
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These right's declared that taxing without formal consent was unconstitutional and illegal.
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The stamp act congress was where the delegates would meet to protest certain laws or acts.
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4 months after it was created it was repealed due to the widespread protests of American's
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It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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The Townshed acts were made to raise revenue for people who supported England that lived in the US.
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The Boston Massacre, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies
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The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.
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Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773
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The intolerable acts were the power to keep Boston under control by sending a military to keep them from town meetings without approval.
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The 1st Continental Congress was a "retaliation to the intolerable acts." It was a meeting that the delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies to resist the English.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. On that night hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a fight that the Colonials lost but caused many casualties for the British which also rose their moral.
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Common Sense was the first document to ask for independence and was very popular among colonists.
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The Declaration of Independence was a document that declared that the United States of America was it's own country.
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Negotiation between the United States and Great Britain, that ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
