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French and Indian War (1754-1763)
The French and Indian War provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but the American colonists had to pay expenses for the war. -
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Proclamation of 1763 (1763)
The Proclamation of 1763 banned the colonies from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, which infuriated the colonists. -
The Stamp Act (1765)
The colonies were upset about the stamp act because they had to pay taxes for the stamps, so they refused to use them. -
The Quartering Act (1765)
The Quartering Act caused Great Britain to house their soldiers in America. The American colonists resented and opposed the Quartering Act since this meant that they had to be taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the troops. -
The Declaratory Act (1766)
The Declaratory Act made the colonists felt that taxes were not implied to this act. Some of the colonists got infuriated by thinking there were going to be more acts. -
Townshend Act (1767)
The colonies were mad about the Townshend Act since they had to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges. They were so mad that they boycotted British goods. -
The Boston Massacre (1770)
The Boston Massacre helped the colonists spark their desire for American independence from Britain, while the dead rioters became martyrs for liberty. -
The Battle of Alamance (1771)
The Battle of Alamance was the last battle of the War of the Regulations. This battle was a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control. -
The Tea Act (1773)
The colonists were upset when Britain allowed the East India Company to sell tea directly in the American colonies. This cut out colonial merchants. -
The Boston Tea Party (1773)
The Boston Tea Party was the beginning of the violent part of the revolution. This was a rebellion against their government. -
Intolerable Acts (1774)
The Intolerable Acts was a series of laws passed by the British Parliament for what the colonists did. The outrage that the colonists caused became the major push that led to the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775. -
The First Continental Congress (Philadelphia, 1774)
The First Continental Congress served as a government for the 13 American colonies and later the United States. This was the start of American independence. -
The Second Continental Congress (Philadelphia, 1775)
The Second Continental Congress helped to raise an army, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing treatises such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. This would help the American colonists to be ready to fight in the war. -
Mecklenburg Resolves (1776)
The Mecklenburg Resolves invalidated and vacated all laws that were from the King or Parliament’s authority and ended acknowledgment of the Crown's power in the colony of North Carolina and all other American colonies. This was making the American colonists become more independent. -
Halifax Resolves (1776)
The Halifax Resolves ordered North Carolina's delegation to the second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They did this to form foreign alliances and seek and vote for independence. -
Declaration of Independence Adopted (1776)
The Declaration of Independence stated certain ideals for that the colonists to have liberty and equality.
