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Treaty of Paris(French and Indian War)
The was signed by Great Britan, France and Spain with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years War. The British gained control over the area west of the 13 British Colonies to the Mississippi River. The French agreed to no longer support any colonies in North America, including all of Canada. Since Spain had joined the war on the side of the French, the Spanish were also forced to give up their claim to Florida. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. -
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord – “shot heard ‘round the world”
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had began. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
