Kyle Timeline 1763-1783

By kylehaiar
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    History

  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in North America

  • Proclamation of 1763

    forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar Act is passed

    The Sugar Act lowered the import tax on foreign molasses in an attempt to deter smuggling, and placed a heavy tax on Madeira wine, which had traditionally been duty-free

  • Stamp Act is passed

    To be enacted on November 1, 1765, the Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase watermarked, taxed paper for use in newspapers and legal documents

  • Stamp act is repealed

    Parliament repealed the Stamp Act due to colonial resistence

  • Troops start to land in Boston

    Britain sent troops to occupy the city in the final months of 1768
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Troops in Boston squared off with a crowd of sailors led by Crispus Attucks. When the crowd knocked one soldier to the ground, the soldiers fired and killed 5 men

  • parliament passes the tea act

  • Burning of Gaspee

    In an act of open defiance against British rule, more than one hundred Rhode Island colonists burn the corrupt customs ship Gaspee to the waterline after it runs aground near Providence
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • British retake Ft. Ticonderoga

  • Treaty of Paris ends the American revolution

    Treaty of Paris ends the American revolution