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The Treaty of Paris was negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary War and bringing independence to America. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Jon Jay, and Henry Laurens were chose to negotiate the treaty.
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King George III issued the Proclamation hoping to make peace with the Native American's who had recently sided against him. The Proclamation stated that colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was not allowed.
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The Sugar Act lowered taxes on molasses in order to persuade importers to buy from British colonials instead of bringing it from the French and Spanish colonies. The Act also increased and enforced the laws of smuggling.
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Taxation without representation, forcing colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document. This was a major cause of the Revolutionary War.
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Two acts of British Parliament to provide the British soldiers with any needed supplies or housing and providing the soldiers with food in the area.
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The first meeting of elective representatives from several colonies to come up with a plan for protesting British taxation.
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Document declaring that taxes imposed of British colonists without their consent were not constitutional.
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A series of British acts for British American colonies in North America named after Charles Townshend who created the program.
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British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists, killing five men while under attack by a mob.
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Rallied patriots against the British and established political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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An Act of the Parliament to reduce massive amounts of tea and raise the revenue from the colonies.
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty showing the Parliament of they felt about the Tea Act where over 340 chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor.
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Very harsh laws passed by the British Parliament meaning to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met from September to October early in the American Revolution.
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The first military arrangements of the Revolutionary War within towns of Lexington and Concord.
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Where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought early in the Revolutionary War, ending with the British defeating the Americans.
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Adopted by the Second Continental Congress, in the final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine about independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Along with the Stamp Act Repeal, the Declaratory stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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After five months of protest and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin, the Parliament repealed the Stamp Act.
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The statement announcing that Americans were no longer under British rule and the thirteen colonies would come together to become a new country. Freedom!
