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This was a proclamation of the king who decided it was unsafe to travel west of the Appalachian Mountains because he feared the Native Americans would attack. They feared this because of Pontiac’s Rebellion where he, an Ottawa Chief, attacked the British.
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The Navigation Laws were not a problem when they were first established in 1650 since they were loosely enforced but now that Prime Minister George Grenville resents the colonists in 1763, he is having them strictly enforced.
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The treaty of Paris was created after the French and Indian war which granted the English with twice the size of their colony, granting the land from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River.
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This was the first Law ever passed by Parliament to tax the colonies for the crown and it increased the duty of foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. Protestors eventually led it the tax to lower.
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The American Colonists were forced to feed and house the British soldiers watching over them.
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Forced a tax on all paper products, from marriage licenses to playing cards. Stamps were required on trading papers for over fifty items. Grenville believed that these orders were just while the Americans protested.
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A group of colonists made up of 27 delegates met in New York to draw up a statement of their rights and grievances to repeal the legislation.
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This was Parliament’s way of forcing the Americans to the British for “all cases whatsoever” and demonstrated d to the Americans that Britain had full sovereignty.
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This was a group of taxes against imported glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea.
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In the evening, sixty townspeople began taunting the British Soldiers and started throwing snowballs to the ten of them. They did this because they were angry over a British Soldier shooting an eleven year old boy. The soldiers opened fire without command and killed eleven people, Crispus Attacks was the first to die.
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Around a hundred Bostonians wore Mohawk he’s dresses and wore paint and stormed a ship importing tea and dumbed it all into the Boston Harbor, and these were the Sons of Liberty. They did this as a protest over the Townshend Act’s tax on tea.
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In 1774, British Parliament addressed the Intolerable Acts. These included the Boston Port Act that closed off the harbor until the tea spilt was paid for. The Quartering Act was reinstated and the colonists were forced to have soldiers in their homes again.
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After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament enacted the Boston Port Act to close the tea-stained harbor until the damages were paid for.
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The First Continental Congress was when 55 men from 12 colonies (Georgia did not attend) met to write a letter to the king to have the Intolerable Acts repealed.
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The British were sent to retrieve Samuel Adams and John Hancock while also seizing the Colonial gunpowder. Colonial minute men refused to disperse quickly, leaving Eight dead and many wounded.
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Redcoats pushed through Lexington to Concord, where the Americans were ready and forced the British to retreat. Seventy redcoats were killed, and many more wounded.
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A document passed by the Continental Congress to the King to cutting off their connection and accounting the king for his crimes against man.
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General Nathaniel Greene attacked the British at King’s Mountain by retreating and attacking.
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General Cornwallis was going to get reinforcements from the British, but instead the French blocked the port and the Americans surrounded the city.
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The British recognized the independence of the Americans and granted boundaries from the Mississippi to the west, Great Lakes to the north, and down to Spanish Florida.
