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The Treaty of Paris
This treaty ended the French and Indian war.
This is when France gave up mainland of North America. -
Proclamation Act
This act was issued by King George III.
This act forbid all settlement past the line is drawn at the Appalachian Mountains.
King George III's hope was to gain the trust of Natives. -
The Sugar Act
This act taxed the colonies on foreign sugar.
This act also taxed others goods including sugar, wine, coffee and cambic. -
Declaratory Act
This act came from Britain with the repeal of the Stamp Act.
This stated that the authority between England and America would be the same which gave England the right to pass taxes. -
The Stamp Act
This Act required for all colonists to pay tax for all printed paper they used.
England taxed due to debt from the Seven Years' War which made the colonies furious. -
The Quartering Act
Parliment passed this act which stated that all colonies must house British soldiers.
British soldiers took advantage of this act, by throwing the owners out of their own homes to make room. This led to frustration throughout the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was a meeting held in New York involving representatives from some of the Britsh colonies.
There they were trying to make up a plan to split from Britain. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This written document stated that the British taxes against the colonies were unconstitutional and unfair.
This document was written by The Stamp Act Congress and was sent to the Kinf of England. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Benjamin Franklin appealed this act after months of protesting throughout the colonies.
After this act was repealed, Parliment passed the Declaratory Act. -
Townshend Act
This Act imposes on glass, lead, paper, and tea imported into the colonies.
Many were not particular fans of this tax. Many of these taxes were repealed besides the tax on tea. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of people began throwing snowballs and other things towards Britsh soldiers, causing the massacre.
The effect of this massacre was five deaths, three immediately died and two in the days later due to wounds.
The soldiers were there to stop colonists from protesting the Townshed Act. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence was an emergency government made in response to the British.
These committees were intercolonial. -
Tea Act
This act was to change the course of the East India Company which brought tea to England.
Colonists were so mad that they boycotted tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams.
This event was caused by the Tea Act of 1773 -
Intolerable Act
These were harsh laws passed by the English Government.
These laws were meant to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve out of the thirteen colonies.
The delegates came together to discuss their part in the Revolutionary War. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles here were the first of the American Revolutionary War.
The British were sent to Concord to dipose of all guns and amunition. These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. -
Bunker Hill
The battle was fought in Massachuttes against the Britsh and the Americans.
The battle was was during the earliy stages of the Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
This petition was made by the Second Continental Congress.
The petition, written by John Dickenson, was sent to the King asking for peace with England. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine.
This pamphlet supported independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
This was made by the Continental Congress declaring their independence.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority of The Declaration of Independence.