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1.) Treaty of paris
After the 7 year war, France ceded all of North America except for New Orlands to keep their Caribbean sugar islands. -
2.) Proclamation Act
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3.) Sugar Act
The first attempt to finance the defence of the colonies by the British Government. -
4.) The Stamp Act
At this time the parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed. -
5.) The Quartering Act
The colonial has to pay for any and all suppies from the british garrisons. -
6.) Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act was found unconstitutional and was found as a tax without 9 of 13 colonies representatives consent. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This was a document that was passed that said that any taxes on british colonist without consent is considered unconstitutional. -
7.) Declaratory Act
The declaratory act was a repeal to the stamp act, and the changing of the sugar act. They did this because of the boycotts that were hurting the town. -
8.) Stamp Act Repealed
The palermnt voted to repeal the stamp act due to months of protest from the colonist. -
Townshend Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, -
9.) Boston Massacre
A crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house and a musket was shot sparking a fighting war into the crowd which killed five civilians. -
Committee of Correspondence
This was a committees made from legislatures from all the colonies and others like sons of liberty. -
10.) Tea Act
The palament exempted its tea from inport and now being sold directly to the colonies, and americans resent this as indirect tax. -
11.) Boston Tea Party
The colonist were mad about tea act so they dumped 9,000 pounds into the boston harbour. -
12.) Intolerable Acts
Massachustts was stripped of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
13.) Lexington And Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who was warned by Paul Revere. -
14.) 1st Continental Congress
This was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies in the hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
15.) Bunker Hill
This was a first major battle of the independence war. At the end of the battle Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367. -
16.) Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Petition)
This was a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain -
21.) Declaration of Independence
This was a well written document that was written by Thomas jefferson declaring freedom for the 13 colonies.
