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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war took place between 1754 and 1763, fought by Great Britain and France to gain control of land. This conflict happened in North America. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was created on October 7, 1763, by King George III after Great Britain's acquired 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. -
Currency Act of 1764
The Currency Act of 1764 extended the 1751 Currency Act to all of the British colonies of North America. Unlike the earlier Act, this statute did not prohibit the colonies from issuing paper money, but it did forbid them from designating future currency charges as legal tender for public and private debts. -
Sugar Act of 1764
On April 5, 1764, British Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence(plural for penny) per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. Took place in Colonial America. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty of 1765
Sons: an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. Daughters: a successful Colonial American group, established in 1765, was women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This act was made to get more tax money from colonists. -
Quartering Act of 1765
On May 3, 1765 the British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. This was to stop troops from doing whatever they wanted to in private homes. -
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Stamp Act Congress of 1765
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Townshend Act of 1767
Townshend Acts of 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and. Important because they helped to reignite anger in the colonies against England. -
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Non-Importation Resolutions 1768-1774
Time varies for each colony, but the non-importation resolution was a way of speeding up economic recovery and oppose British taxes. Some colonies who did this were Virginia, Washington, and Pennsylvania. “No Taxation Without Representation” -
Boston Massacre of 1770
Occurred on March 5, 1770. Squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressured, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds. The Boston Massacre is remembered as a key event in helping to push the colonial public to the Patriot cause. -
Committees of Correspondence of 1772
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Established in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party of 1773
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. Was a protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Tea Act of 1773
The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Intolerable(Coercive) Act of 1774
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term 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. -
First Continental Congress in 1774
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. The royal governor in Georgia succeeded in blocking delegates from being sent to the congress. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts." Assembled to oppose British laws and taxes. -
Second Continental Congress in 1775
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Lexington and Concord 1775
The Battles were the first military engagements. They fought at Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. Started the Battle. When British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
Declaration of Independence in 1776
The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, announced that the thirteen American colonies were 13 new independent sovereign states and no longer under British Rule. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was passed on July 2 with. A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence.