Pre- revolution chart

  • Proclamation

    no colonial settlement British of the Appalachian mountains.
  • Sugar act

    Halved the duty on Foreign- made molasses in the hopes coloniest would stop Smuggling
  • stamp act

    the stamp act required colonists to purchase special stamped paper to every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac.
  • repeal of stamp act

    in march 1766 parliament repealed the stamp act; but on the same day , to make it's power clear,parliament issued the Declaratory act.
  • Boston Massacre

    colonial propaganda.
    John Adam defends British soldiers in court
  • Boston tea party

    in a incident later know as the Boston tea party, the "Indians"dumped 18,000 pounds of the east India company's tea into the water of Boston Harbor.
  • intolerable acts

    in 1774, parliament responded to the Boston tea party by passing the intolerable act which: shut down Boston Harbor