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end of the french and indian war
Britain and french sign a french surrender but britans not fine there in debt due to the great costs of the war tax the british start to tax the colonists. -
The proclamation of 1763
The brithish banned all the colonists from settiling west of the Appilation mountains. Believed they had the right to live where they pleased. The colonists' were widely ingmored because it was impossible for the British to enforce. -
sugar act
The british but taxes on sugar, malases and many other things. It included harsh punishments for smugglers. This leads James Otis to coin the phrase "Taxation without representation is tyerrine. coloinsts refused to by british goods they sent a paticon to England. -
stamp act
The clonists had to buy an additional stamp for documents like doplumas, contracts, news papers and even playing cards. This was an unfair tax that they had not input. The coloinsts demanded the tax be repilled. They burned stamps and held the stamp act congress in new york city. -
Quartering act
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
their rights as Englesh citizens have been violated. Some refused to let the soldiers in there homes. -
Townshed act
Britain won't tax goods in the colonies. They will tax on imports including lead, tea, and glass. The writs of assitence allowed British customs officals to search ships. This is still a tax the rights are being violated. Smuggle goods into the colonies reduce imports to the colonies. -
boston massacre
Many coloniests got angry and formed a mob. They had sticks and rocks and snow balls. they were yelling at a group of british solders. The british fired there muskets and killed many coloniests -
Tea act
This tax made it so the british could sell tea to the 13 colonies. It would also be tax free for them to do this. Harsh punishments if the colonistes tried to smuggle tea in. -
boston tea party
The tea must be imported directly from britan east indian co. Tea is still taxed 3 pence a pound. Coloinests raid the ships and dumped the tea over boared. It took three hours to dump all the tea out. -
coercive/intolerable acts
These are a series of laws passed by the British parlement. These trigerd outrage in the 13 coloines. Four of the acts were directed at the boston tea party. -
The first continental congress
This was a convention of delegates. They meet in carpenters' hall in Philadelphia, pennsylvania. It was responce to the passage of the coercive acts aslo known as the intolerble acts. -
Paul Revere's ride
This was a poem about the ride that Paul Revere did on April 18 1775. In the poem Revere tells a friend to prepair the signal lights on the old north church. He dose this to inform that the brithish will attack by either land or sea. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the American Revolutionary war. This battle marked a outbreak in open armed conflect. It was between the British and the thirteen colonies.
