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Treaty of Paris of 1763
This ended the French and Indian war, and France gave up all territories. -
Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian war, the British issued the Proclamation of 1763 as an order to keep colonists east of the Appalachian Mountains. Anything west of the mountains was considered Indian territory. One main reason for this was to keep peace with the Indians to continue trade. -
Stamp Act
This act required them to place a tax on every piece of paper they printed. The money was used to help pay the cost of defending the American frontier close the Appalachian Mountains. -
Townshend Acts
This act was passed by British Parliament and placed taxes on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc. imported in to the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A group of soldiers stood outside the Old State House. The colonists, out of protest, picked up anything in their line of sight and aimed at the Red Coats. One of the British soldiers was knocked to the ground and the others—thinking that he was shot—started firing off into the crowd. 5 colonists were pronounced dead, and, to get other countries on their side, used propaganda by naming this incident the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
Forced the American colonists to buy tea only from the East India Company. The colonists saw this as another act of Taxation Without Representation, for they couldn’t buy from another place without paying a lot of money. This act also led to the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, dressed as Indians and sneaked onto British ships. There, they threw hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor as protest against taxes on tea. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament began growing irritated with colonial antics. The Boston Tea Party was just the final straw. At first they called this the Coercive Acts, and in the Coercive Acts, the Boston Harbor was forced closed, only food and firewood were permitted into the port, town meetings were banned, and authority of the royal governor was increased. -
1st Continental Congress
The colonists were more than fed up by the Acts that were forced on them. There was agreement within the colonies that they needed to have another meeting. In September 1774, they convened in Philadelphia. There, they discussed the action that needed to take place. -
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere was sent to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. On the way, he stopped at each house on the country-side to warn them, and Paul made it to Lexington at about midnight. After finishing what he was sent to Lexington to do, he, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott continued on to Concord. They all ended up arrested but soon escaped afterwards. -
Lexington and Concord
The redcoats reached Lexington, and there, 70 militiamen waited for them at town square with muskets. The first shot was fired, and when fighting was over, 8 militiamen were dead. British troops rushed to Concord to arrest the colonists, but when they got there, the gunpowder and the people have taken off. When they got to Concord’s Old North Bridge more militiamen were awaited them. Colonists shot at the British from behind trees and rocks. When the redcoats reached Boston 73 were dead. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Imperial army was threatening to arrest patriot leaders. Minutemen have been killed in their defense. The Second Continental Congress decided to meet in Philadelphia once again. There, it was decided that a Continental Army was to be created. -
Declaratory Act
Was a British law passed at the time the Stamp Act was repealed. The act secured Parliament’s authority on the colonies and went by the phrase, “in all cases whatsoever,” which could be taken as the power to tax.
