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Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, and tea were Taxed for the administration of the colonies. The result was the Stamp Act. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal signed a truce to end the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
The end of French and Indian War. -
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Revolutionary War
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The tax was on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on everything. Some people rebeled like Sam Adams. -
Quartering Act
Required people to house Troops -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British people. First appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
where supporters of the act like Thomas Jefferson, Dumped All crates of tea into the ocean.This was because of taxes. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts, name given by American patriots to five laws by Parliament in 1774, which limited the political of the colonists. Four of these laws were passed to punish the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. Traitors were common like Beneidect Arnold. -
1st Continental Congress
Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing several laws that became known in America as the Intolerable Acts. One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. This was part of the 1st Continental Congress. -
Lexington and Concord
The start of the Revolutionary War. At night, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere sounded the alarm that the british were coming. -
Decloration of Independence
The Document that made America a free nation. With signatures by john adams. And supporters like The sons of Liberty. -
Battle of Saratoga
5,895 British troops surrendered their arms. General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his force that had triumphantly marched into New York from Canada in the early summer of 1777. This turning point Included many important generals like Benedict Arnold. -
Battle At Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French troops, begins the siege of Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a army of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown.n This was one of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
After the American-French victory at Yorktown led to the toppling of Lord North's Tory government and the naming of a Whig,
