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1) Treaty of Paris 1763
signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain.The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre -
Proclamation Act
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses -
The Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation -
Declaratory Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Committees of Correspondence
were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War -
Tea Act
An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. dumped britush tea from a boat into the harber -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
Lexington & Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
bunker hill
a battle during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Petition)
a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies -
Common Sense
advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain. -
Stamp Act Repealed
ax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
21) Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British.