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Treaty Of Paris 1763
The (First) Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War or Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, along with their allies. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, therefore ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation Act
The Royal Proclamation was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. -
The Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty. -
Intoreable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusettus. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
The Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolution. The British defeated the colonists. -
Declaration Of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
Common Sense By Thomas Paine
Common Sense was a work by Tom Paine that challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people, and for once seemed to include them in the debate. This was the first writing that openly asked for American to have independance from Britian.