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Proclamation of 1763
An imaginary line where colonists can't go past the appalachian mountains to lower the responsibility of security for the British government. -
Sugar Act
To tax sugar and molasses lower, so people could stop smuggling. And so that the colonists would buy more to pay the salaries of the soldiers. -
Stamp Act
A tax on ALL paper products. A group called the Sons of Liberty had a mob action on the tax and the tax got repealed. The tax was used to pay for the war debt. -
Quatering Act
It required colonies to provide food, housing, drink, and fuel for soldiers in their colony. -
Declatory Act
A law placed that the parliament has all power to put taxes on anything. This law was passed on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists did not notice it because they were celebrating the repeal of the stamp act. -
Townshend Act
Taxes would be made to imported goods. Colonists were outraged about this, the Daughters of Liberty was made to protest it. -
Boston Massacre
A fight between colonists and British soldiers. Gunfire was shot because colonists dared the soldiers to. People did die but the soldiers won the trial with the help of John Adams. -
Tea Act
A secret tax on tea. Made to save the British East India Company from bankruptcy and to give them a monopoly. It tricked the colonists into buying taxed tea, it prevented smuggling, and it was made to take over the tea trade. -
Boston Tea Party
50 men from the Sons of Liberty dressed as mohawk indians threw off 342 chests of tea into the ocean when asked to unload the tea. They were surrounded by British armed ships but were never opposed. -
Intolerable Acts
King George III thought that "we must master them or totally leave them alone." so he made the coercive acts also known as the intolerable acts. Many intolerable laws were placed to punish Boston for Boston Tea Party. It closed all shipping on Boston Harbor until the tea was paid. Colonists could not hold a town meeting in Massachusetts. If accused of murder, then you are tried in England. -
1st Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia to attend "the first continetnal congress".The delegates called for the repeal of the 13 acts of Parliament, as well as voted to boycatt all British goods and trade. They made an important decision to form a Malitia to fight against Great Britain. -
Lexington and Concord
Massachusetts had prepared miltia called by themselves the Minutemen. General Thomas Gage was instructed to take away the weapons of the militia and arrest the leaders of the militia. Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to Lextington to warn the hidden Samuel Adams and John Adams. The redcoats reached Lexington, they came across a group of minutemen and an uknown shot was fired known as the "Shot heard from around the world". Members of the miltia wounded 200 and killing 73 redcoats.
