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Proclamation Of 1763
Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline -
The Stamp Act
Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies, Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed. https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor. https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline -
The Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution/articles/american-revolution-timeline -
Declaration Of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The declaration explained why the 13 colonies at war with the kingdom of great Britain regarded themselves as 13 independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. -
The Articles Of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America, officially ending the American Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.
