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First Navigation Acts Passed
The First Navigation Act was passed by the Rump Parliament in October 1651 in the wake of an unsuccessful diplomativc attempt by Oliver St. John and Walter Strickland to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The Act increased tension between the Commonwalth and the United Provinces and was a contributory factor in bringing about the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652-4. -
Half Way Covenant issued
It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifing away from their original religios purpose. -
Boston Newsletter First Published
First continuously published newspaper in British North America. It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation. -
Great Awakening
An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism -
King George III crowned
King of Great Britian and Ieland until his death. He was third British monarch of the House of Hanover. -
Writs of Assistance passed
Writs of Assistance were court orders that authorized customs officers to conduct general searches of premises for contaband. -
French and Indian War begons
Between colonies of British American and New France, with both side supported by military units from their parent countires of Great Britian and France, as well as Native American allies. Resulted in the Treaty of Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
Law stating that coloniests could not settle west of the Appalachain Mountians -
Sugar Act passed
Raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonail market. -
Currency Act passed
This act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency, -
Stamp Act passed
https://www.google.com/search?q=stamp%20act%20passed&rlz=1CALEAA_enUS622US622&oq=stamp%20act%20passed&aqs=chrome..69i57.4735j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=onStamp Act was passed by British Parliment. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, liscenses, newspapers, and other publications and even on playing cards were taxed -
Quartering Act passed
British Parliment met and finally pased this act for the Americas. The act stated troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn;t enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inss. -
Sons Of Liberty Formed
A group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves, The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act.The first widely known acts of the Sons took place on August 14, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver was found hanging in a tree on Newbury street, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it. The boot was a play on the name of the Earl of Bute and the whole display was intended to etablish an evil conncetion between Oliver and the Stamp Act -
Stamp Act Congress meets
Meeting held consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. -
Declatory Act passed
An Act of the British Parliment, which accompanined the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act. -
Colonists begin boycotting British goods
Taxes has result in coloinists boycotting major british goods, one major one was the Tea Act. -
Townshend Act passed
Imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britian. -
Committees of Correspondence sends first Circular Letter
Statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Masschusetts House of Representatives in response to the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Massacre
Killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Tea Act
Passed by Parliment, would launch final spark to the revolutionary movement in Bostone. Was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Intolerable Acts passed
Passed by the Brritian Parliment after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonies. -
Closing of all Amercian ports
Designed to secure Great Britian's jursdicitions over American Dominions -
First Continental Congress meets
Meeting of delegates from tweleve of the thirteen colonies. -
Suffolk Resolves issued
Declaration made by the leaders of Suffolk Country, Massachusetts. Rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resolved on a boycott of imported goods from Britian. -
"Give me liberty or give me death" spoken
Patrick Henry gave this speech. He adressed the audience with intentions of convincing them that they must enter the Revolutionary War in order go defend their freedom. -
British attack at Concord
The battles marked the outbrek of open armed conflict between Kingdom of Great Britian and thirteen colonies. -
Second Continental Congress begins
Began soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. Managed the olonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Common Sense published
Inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britian. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language.It was anonymously published at the begining of the American Revolution -
The Crisis published
A pamphlet series by Enlightment philosopher and author Thomas Paine during the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East Indian Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruiing the tea. -
Letters From an American Farmer published
Series of letters written by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. The tweleve letters cover wide range of topics, from the emergence of an American identity to the slave trade. -
British hire Hessians to fight against Americans
18th-century German auxillaries contracted for military service by the British government, who found it easier to borrow money to pay for their service than to recruit its own soliders. -
Minutemen formed
Private colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponary, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. -
Tarring and Feathering of British agents begins
Form of public, used enforce unofficial justice or revenge. -
Olive Branch Petiton issued
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress. Affirmed American loyalty to Great Britian and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Albany Plan of Union created
Proposal to create unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Declaration of Independence signed
A statement announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britian were now independent states, and this no longer part of the British Empire
