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Proclamation of 1763
Meant no settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, colonist didn't like this because it made them feel like the government didn't care for them. -
1764: Sugar Act
Was a revenue raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, Colonist did not like how they were being taxed so much more. -
1765: Stamp Act
Colonist required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. Colonist didn't like it so they united in their defiance. -
1765: Quartering Act
Authorized British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes, colonist didn't take it too kindly on it, they said it violated their Bill Of Rights. -
Repeal Of The Stamp Act
After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Townshend Act/Duties
A series of acts passed, beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons -
Tea Act
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Intolerable Acts
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. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts, British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
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. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost.
