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The first of the navigation laws passed by parliament over the next 23 years, forced all goods both imported and exported from the colonies to be shipped directly to or from the mother land first. This eliminated the trading between other countries and the colonies, giving more power to Great Britain.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian War. Great Britain wins the war and gains everything from the Appellation Mountains all the way to the Mississippi River.
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A tax on the colonies for molasses. Great Britain needed money to fix the debt from the French and Indian War, so they started taxing the colonies for money. This upset the colonists because of not having any representation in parliament, leading to the slogan ‘no taxation without representation’
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Great Britain didn’t want to rack up more debt by having to build new homes and housing for the troops they left overseas in the colonies, so they told the colonists they must feed and house the British soldiers in their own homes.
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Great Britain still needs more money, so they tax the colonies for everything that needed a stamp on it. That included paper and official documents.
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After fights broke out in the colonies over the extreme taxes on paper and all stamped goods, parliament repealed the stamp act.
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Parliament wanted the colonies to be aware that they held the right to impose any law or tax on them. This was said at the same time as the repeal of the stamp act, so many colonists didn’t really care about that statement at the time.
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This act was a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. Tea was the main drink of the colonists and it upset they very much that now they had to pay so much more for the same thing. This event caused a chain reaction that would lead up to the Boston Tea Party
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Colonists kept terrorizing the British redcoat military on the streets by throwing snowballs with rocks, the British got few up with it and they all pulled a few triggers. Leaving a handful of colonists dead. This is the first blood to have been shed which led to the American Revolutionary War.
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Late at night a group of colonists dressed up as Indians stormed the ships docked at the harbors and dumped crates of tea leaves into the ocean. This was known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists did this because they were upset with Great Britain for having a monopoly on tea.
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As a result of the BostonTea Party, Great Britain closed off all ports in the harbors of Massachusetts and stocked the state full of soldiers. They told the colonists that nothing will go in or out of the harbor until all the tea has been paid for.
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Passed at the same time as the Intolerable Acts, the Quebec Act was aimed at the French Canadian neighbors saying that thy would not have a jury trial for civil cases. The colonies overheard this Act and they were angry. The colonists took this as a threat of an unfair trial.
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The Association was the most significant thing that the First Continental Congress did, this was a call for all the colonies to boycott goods from Great Britain. This was before they had announced their independence, but they refused to consume, export, or import goods from Great Britain. They did this to fight back at parliament for the awful laws and taxes.
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A representative from each state came together, except Georgia, to think up a good come back after the intolerable act. They decided to ask the King for peace, while telling the colonies to gear up for war. This was more like a convention rather than a Congress.
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When the First Continental Congress sent a message to the
King asking to have representation, they had also told the colonists to get ready for battle. Somehow Great Britain found our about this and about how the colonists were stockpiling ammunition and weapons. GB was not too happy about this and they sent troops in to confiscate the weapons from the colonists. The troops battled in Lexington and were defeated in Concord -
They met to come up with another letter to the King in hopes for repealing the taxes. They also found ways to raise money to start a paid army and navy.
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The Declaration of Independence was an official document sent to the Kind stating the official separation from the crown.
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2,800 soldiers went without food or clothing all winter, with women walking with them helping fix food and clothes for the soldiers. At the same time smallpox went around the colonies.
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The colonists fought almost the entire war before they adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1781. The Articles of Confederation is a written constitution, which will be revised.
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Great Britain formally announced and recognized the independence of the United States.
