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proclamation of 1763
The procalmation of 1763 was set by the king of england. what it did was close of all the boarders west of the colinist boundries. It did produce 4 new colinies qubec two new southern colinies called west florida and east florida and off the contintent, grenada -
the stamp act
the stamp act was set by british parlament without the american colinist consent. What it required every colinist to do was to pay tax on every piece of printed paper the colinist used -
the quartering act
the quartering act of 1765 required all colonies to house british solders in barracks -
stamp act congress
the stamp act congress was the plan to send representation to england so the could agree on taxses -
townshend act
the townshend act was desigened to collect revenue from the colnist in america by putting custom duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
bosten massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
bosten tea party
In 1770, American protests led to Parliament's repeal of the Townshend duties except for the duty on tea retained by the British as a matter of principle. The colonists demonstrated their displeasure with the remaining tax by drinking smuggled tea. -
1st conntinential congress
The idea of an intercolonial meeting was advanced in 1773 by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain much support until after the Port of Boston was closed in response to the Boston Tea Party -
lexington and concored
During the little hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would seize gunpowder. -
dec. of independence
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battle of saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts, On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force that had triumphantly marched into New York from Canada in the early summer of 1777. -
battle of yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
treaty of paris 1783