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Proclamation of 1763
King George III was following the acquisition of the french territory in North America after the end of the French and indian war, also known as the Seven years war. Which forbade all settlement past a line along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Was a tax on the colonials by the British, for foreign sugar. -
Repeal of the stamp act
After months of people protesting and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the british house of commons, the stamp act was voted to be repealed by the parliament. -
Stamp Act
Act from the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the american colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal commercial documents. colonial opposition led to the Act´s repeal and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering act
The Quartering act is a name of two acts of the British parliament in the local government of the american colonies to provide the British soliders with ant needed accomodations and housing .it also required colonists to provide food for any british soldiers in the area. -
Stamp act congress
This was the first congress of the american colonies, the meetings were held between the dates of Oct. 7 and 25, 1765 in new york city. In this congress group there were representatives from several of the american colonies and some representatives from the british colonies in north america. -
Declaratory act
Declaration by the british parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp act, the declaratory act stated that the british parliament´s tacing authority was the same in america as in great britain. Parliment had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar act, and Stamp act. -
Townshend act
Series of acts passed by the Parliament, The acts were named after Charles Townshend. The chancellor of the exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
Boston colonists began to start a riot from an argument, the British troops were attempting to control the colonists. But they began to throw rocks and the troops fired upon the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water, this was caused by the tax upon tea. -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots term for a series of laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor in reaction to being taxed by British. -
Quebec Act
This law was passed to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the proclamation of 1763, it gave french Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the french form of civil rights. -
First Continental Congress
Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia. Early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved at a slow but steady pase towards independence. adopting the United States declaration of independence on july 4, 1776 -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the revolutionary war. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen colonies from great Britain.
