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Proclamation of 1763
To prevent more fighting, Brtiain called a halt to the settlers westward expansion. In the Proclamation of 1763, King George III declared that the Appalachian Mountains were temporary western boundary for the colonies. -
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The Road to Revolution
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The Sugar Act
In 1764, Parliment passed the Sugar Act. The act lowered the tax on molasses imported by the colonists. -
Stamp Act
Parilament passed aother law in an effort to rasie money. This law, the Stamp Act placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies, everything form newspapers and pamplets to wills and playing cars. -
Stamp Act Is Repealed
Parliament gave in to the colonists demands and repealed the Stamp Act. -
New Taxes
Soon after the Stamp Act crisis, Parliament passed a set of laws in 1767 that came to be known as the Townshend Acts. In these acts the British leaders tried to avoid some of the problems the Stamp Act caused. -
The Boston Massacre
Relations between the redcoats and the Boston Colonists grew more tense. Then on March 5, 1770 the tension finally reached a peak. That day a fight broke out between townspeople and soldiers. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is one of the significant events leading ultimately to American Independence. The boston tea party took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monoply on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor -
The Continental Congress
In September 1774, 55 men arrived in the city of Philidelphia. Sent as delegates from all the colonies except Georgia, these men had come to establish a political body to represent American interests and cahllenge British control. They called the new organization the continental congress. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The causes of the battles of Lexinton and Concord were oppresive British rule of the american colonies and the boston tea party. These were the first two battles of the American revolution which lead to their eventual freedom -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
On June 16, 1775 about 1,200 militiamen under the command of Colonel William Presscott set up fortifications at Bunker HIll and nearby Breed's HIll, across the harbar from Boston. -
The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truth sto be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happines.