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Navigation Acts
Series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. -
French and Indian War Ends
French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain. -
Proclomation of 1763
It forbade colonists from setlling west of the Applachian Mts. -
Sugar Act
This Law reduced the tax rate on Molases and Sugar. This improved the rate in which the government collected taxes. For the Colonists it was just another expence. -
The Stamp Act
This law required many written or printed items, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards, to be produced on special paper stamped in Great Britain. In order to purchase this stamped paper, colonists had to pay a tax. -
The Quartering Act
This Law force the colonist to let the "Red Coats" live in thier homes. -
Sons of Liberety
This was a group of men that leaded in the Boycotts. -
Declatory Act
This law reminded the colonists that Parliament could still tax them. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
These laws imposed import duties, or special taxes on goods imported into the colonies. Import duties were placed on many everyday items that the colonists purchased from Britain. The Townshend Acts taxed goods such as lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. The Townshend Acts also took steps to increase British officials’ ability to stop smuggling and enforce tax collections. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight 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. -
First Committee of Correspondence
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Tea Act
This Act enforce colonist to pay tax on the tea from India so that the King could get out of debt from the French and Indian War. -
Boston Tea Party
The government was taxing people on Tea, so the Sons of Liberety jumped, discised as indians, on the ship holding chests of tea bags and dumped them all over. -
Intolerable Act of 1774
British was mad at the people for the boycotts and punished them by passing laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts. The acts created a boarder around Boston’s harbor, closing it off to trade. The acts took authority away from the elected legislature of Massachusetts and gave new powers to British troops in America. The Intolerable Acts were an act of war. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia at what came to be called the First Continental Congress. There, they worked on a joint response to the Intolerable Acts. -
First Continental Congress
the First Continental Congress issued a document known as the Declaration and Resolves. The document was a petition to King George III. It called for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. It also demanded that Parliament and the king respect the colonists’ rights as citizens. -
Paul Revere
A grouop of colonists learned about General Gage’s plan to send troops to Concord & sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Americans to stop Gage’s troops before they get to Concord. -
Lexington & Concord
British Army went to Boston to capture rebels, Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. The colonists were warned however, by Paul Revere, that the British were coming. Sam and John escaped and the local militiary was able to hide a lot of ammunition and weapons.
