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French and Indian War
The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America. Parliament was desperate to obtain two objectives; first, to tax the colonies to recover monies expended on the battle over North America, and second to restore the profitability of the East India Company in an effort to recover monies spent on the battle over India. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists. -
The Sugar Act
reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron -
The Stamp act
an act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned. -
The Quartering act
an act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. -
The Townshend Act
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, of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the said colonies or plantations; -
The Boston Massacre
An event where 3 people were killed by british soldiers while the colonists were protesting -
The Tea Act
An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free. -
The Boston Tea Party
radical townspeople stormed the ships and tossed 342 chests of tea into the water. Disguised as Native Americans, the offenders could not be identified. -
The coercive acts
also known as the intolerable acts,four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773. -
The first continental congress
The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all. -
The second continental congress
The questions were different this time. First and foremost, how would the colonist meet the military threat of the british. -
The shot heard around the world
the first shot of the war, it was fired at the battle of lexington and concord. -
Common sense
Common Sense by Thomas Paine challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
The declaration of independence
the declaration that broke of America's ties with great britain -