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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war. -
Proclamation Act
The Proclamation act kept the colonists from expanding into the new territory gained after the French and Indian war. -
Sugar Act
The sugar tax was a tax England placed on certain items imported to the colonies including,sugar, wines, coffee along with regulating export of iron and lumber in the colonies. -
Stamp Act
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Quartering Act
an act the required colonist to provide housing to british soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting with representatives from some of the colonies that discussed protesting the stamp act and other british taxes on the colonies -
Declaration of Rights and Greivances
The declaration of rights and grievances was created by the stamp act congress and brought up fourteen things that the colonists thought were against their rights. -
Stamp Act repealed
Stamp Act was repealed. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act diminished the Sugar Act and stated that Britain had the same powers over the colonies as it did in England. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of six acts that were purposed to generate profit to pay judges and governors so that they would remain loyal to England. -
Boston Massacre
The boston massacre was when several colonists were killed by british soldiers in the streets of Boston -
Committee of Correspondence
The committee was a seperate government to coordinate against Britain and between colonies. -
Tea Act
gave the British East Indian Company full rights to selling the colonies tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the colonies against the Tea act that included the dumping of a ships worth of tea that was dumped into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable acts were placed on Boston after the tea party and the took away the self government of Boston along with some other rights. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from twelve states that discussed revolution and specifically the coercive acts. -
Lexington & Concord
First shots of the Revolution fired -
Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was during the revolutionary war fought near Boston. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
was the last attempt at avoiding war with Britain. -
Common Sense
Common sense was a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that helped inspire the colonies to revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
Independence declared from Britain by the colonies.