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End of French and Indian War
The Seven Years’ War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain and Spain. -
Proclamation of 1763
Was issued by King George III at the end of the French and Indian war. It forbid all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was the border for a Indian Reserve. -
Sugar Act
In order to deter smuggling and encourage the production of British rum, taxes on molasses were dropped. A levy was placed on foreign Madeira wine and colonial exports of iron, lumber and other goods. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire. Taxes were put on colonial transactions, newspaper advertisements, and ships' bills of landing. -
Townshend Act
Levied new import duties on everyday items such as glass, led, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
In Boston, a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people. -
Boston Tea Party
The Americans were protesting both the tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East Indian Company. They threw 342 chest of tea from ships into the Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Intolerable Acts
Measures that stripped Massachusetts of self government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony except Georgia meet in Philadelphia to organize opposition to the intolerable act. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war between the British troops and the minutemen, who had been warned by Paul Revere.
