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Proclamation of 1763
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. -
Navigation Laws are Tightened
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. -
Treaty of Paris
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. -
Sugar Act of 1764
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. -
Quartering Act
The American Colonists were forced to feed and house the British soldiers watching over them. -
Stamp Tax
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. -
Stamp Act Congress of 1765
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. -
Declaratory Act
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. -
Townshend Acts
This was a group of taxes against imported glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
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. -
Boston Tea Party
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. -
Intolerable Acts
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. -
Boston Port Act
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament enacted the Boston Port Act to close the tea-stained harbor until the damages were paid for. -
First Continental Congress
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. -
Battle of Lexington
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. -
Battle at Concord
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. -
Declaration of Independence
A document passed by the Continental Congress to the King to cutting off their connection and accounting the king for his crimes against man. -
Victory at King’s Mountain
General Nathaniel Greene attacked the British at King’s Mountain by retreating and attacking. -
Cornwallis’s Surrender of Yorktown
General Cornwallis was going to get reinforcements from the British, but instead the French blocked the port and the Americans surrounded the city. -
Treaty of Paris
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.
