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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a seven year war. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act was a raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764 -
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Stamp act
After England was victorious over France in the Seven Years' War (known in America as the [[French and Indian War]], a small Stamp Act was enacted that covered of all sorts of documents from newspapers to legal documents, and even playing cards. The English were taxing the colonial population to raise revenue, but the Americans claimed their constitutional rights were violated, since only their own colonial legislatures could levy taxes refEdmund S. Morgan, -
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Townshend act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on American colonies. The policy ignited a powder keg of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party initially referred to by John Adams as the Destruction of the Tea in Boston was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Deceleration of independents
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
