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FIRST CONTINENAL CONGRESS
Description : In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were among the delegates. -
INTOLERABLE ACTS
Description:The British called their responsive measures to the Boston Tea Party the COERCIVE ACTS, Right after passing the Coercive Acts, it passed the QUEBEC ACT, a law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec. Results: For the first time since the Stamp Act Crisis, an intercolonial conference was called. -
Second 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 begun. -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the following summer, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independence from Britain had grown, and delegates of the Continental Congress were faced with a vote on the issue. In mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tas -
Proclamation of 1763
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, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and -
The sugar act of 1764
This act forced everyone in America to pay a 3c tax on sugar.
Most Colonists were angry that the British Government took action without permission. They didn't like that they were being controlled by the British -
STAMP ACT
Description:Tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
Results: Virginia Governor Fauquier did not approve of the resolutions, and he dissolved the House of Burgesses in response to their passage. -
QUARTERING ACT
Description:Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
Result: The soldiers, living cheek by jowl with riled Patriots, were soon involved in street brawls and then the Boston Massacre of 1770, during which not only five rock-throwing colonial rioters were killed but any residual trust between Bostonians and the resident Redcoats. That breach would never be healed in the New England p -
DUTIES OF 1767
Description: AN ACT for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom. Result: The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
Description: The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. Results: The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War -
The Tea Act
Description: The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. Results: ultimately lead to the revolution, but not the Tea Act alone. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
Description : The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Edenton Tea Part
Description:The Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1773. -
MECKLENBERG RESOLVES
Description: a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. Result:North Carolina government has endorsed the story, and the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration, and now the "Mecklenburg Resolves" is memorialized on the State Seal and the North Carolina Flag -
HALIFAX RESOLVES
Description The Halifax Resolves were the first official provincial action for independence in any of the colonies. The Fourth Provincial Congress adjourned on May 15, 1776, having appointed a single Council of Safety to rule the entire colony. This council was meeting in Halifax when, on July 22, it received news that the Declaration of Independence had been signed in Philadelphia. The council immediately adopted a resolution declaring North Carolinians “absolved from all Allegiance to the Brit
