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Sugar Act
The sugar act was the first tax on the parliament. It was to change the tax of sugar and molasses. It helped lower the tax of sugar and molasses but it also had a crackdown. Colonial smuggling started to spread mostly around New England. The colonists were getting upset about the law because their normal ways of business were getting disrupted. There were a lot of colonial protests against British interference. -
French and Indian war
The Virginia governor sent soldiers to force the French to leave the Ohio River. The French rejected this and the French claimed the land between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. Washington moved west to build a fort and the French were there building a fort. Washington decided to move south to attempt to make a fort again. Later the French forces defeated Washington’s troops. The French ended up in debt. The French let Washington and his people go back to Virginia. -
Pontiac’s war
The Ottawa chief, Pontiac attacked the British forts while the French and Indian war was ending. More than two thousand British settlers died. Britain got upset and eventually defeated Pontiac’s troops. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was a law that was created by the British board of trade and announced by King George III. The law said that white people were no longer allowed to live west of the Appalachian land. The British board of trade did this to avoid conflict with the Native Americans and to tighten Britain’s control over the colonies. The colonists did not like this law and they refused to obey it. Frontier settlers and land speculators kept on migrating westward. The law stated that until th -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first tax laid on colonies in North America. The Stamp Act was stamped on every Newspaper, commercial paper, and playing cards. The British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act. The meeting for the Stamp Act was hold in New York City. It was to grant and apply stamp duties in British. The Stamp Acts made colonial businesses and government offices shut down. colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act congress and they drafted protests and resolutions. Colonists protested with ri -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act compelled colonial governments to provide food and shelter and supplying of British troops in North America. The colonists were scared that they would have to keep the British troops in their homes even though it did not say that in the Act. The Quartering Act then became a major colonial grievance. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act made a tax on goods shipped to American colonies. This tax was put many items including, glass, paper, paint, lead and tea. This was to rasie revenue from colonists by tax on extermal trade. It allowed taxes in British colonies and plantations in America. Many colonists organized protests and they began boycotting the taxed goods. -
Boston Massacre
Parliament takes away all taxes except on tea. Colonists protested these taxes. The colonists circled around British soldiers and threw rocks and snow at them. Five people died because the soldiers panicked and started to shoot the colonists. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a tax that was meant to help the British East India Company get out of debt. The Tea Act helped lower the price of tea. It helped the British East India Company and British officials choose which merchants were allowed to sell tea. Citizens objected the new tax and they threatened to prohibit ships carrying tea from docking. Colonists still continued to boycott tea. -
Boston Tea party
The colonists did not like paying tax on tea, so the British protest on tea act. Colonists dressed as Native Americans and poured 342 barrels of tea from the Boston Harbor into the ocean. The American Patriots were discussed as they saw this happen. The Boston ports closed after the Boston tea party. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was when British troops marched into lexington. There was a very loud gun shot and the british troops reacted quickly and killed eight med and more men were injured. This happened because their was a report that millita did not want to fight the british and that they just wanted to show strenghth. After this war the British marched to concord and they destroyed some arsenals. American minutemen then harassed the british and 75 british died, 174 were hurt, an -
Bunker Hill battle
The Battle of Bunker Hill was when a thousand American soldiers gathered around Boston because they were trying to gain a strong position against British troops in Boston. Britain wins the battle but a thousand British troops were killed. The Americans then drove the British out of Boston. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was planned by Burgoyne. the battle was to get control of the Hudson Valley by trying to isolate New England from the other states. Burgoyne also wanted to have troops move toward Albany from three directions. The plain fails. Howe needed to help Burgones troops move their weapons and supplies south but Howe ordered Burgoyne to attack Philadelphia. The Americans cut off the troops from western New York that were supposed to join Burgoyne. The Americans then surrounded Burg -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major conflict of the Revolutionary war. The American and French troops began bombarding Cornwallis’s troops.Charels Cornwallis was forced to surrender. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives from two nations. It was meant to stop the American Revolution and fledging the United States everything they wanted. The treaty helped stop the Revolution.
