History Timeline- Jack and Hannah

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    The Quartering Acts were two British Laws that were designed to make local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    the stamp act was designed to raise revenue from american colonies in the form of a stamp
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    series of laws which sent new import taxes on british goods
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Confrontation in which the British shot and killed many in the street
  • Tea Acts

    Tea Acts

    designed to bail out the british east india company and to expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all british colonies
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    political protest created by the colonists, anrgry at Great Britain for imposing "no taxation without representation"
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    laws passed by british parliament intended to harm the colonists in their defiance towards the tea party protest
  • Battle of Lexington

    Battle of Lexington

    Ignited the start of the Revolutionary war, the British fought American Colonists in Massachusetts.