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The Treaty Of Paris ended the Seven Years war. Britain, Spain, and France all get land in America.
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Issued by the British to seperate the Native Americans from the colonists along the Appalachian divide.
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Reduced the tax on imported molasses and adds to the list of products that the colonists can only export to Britain.
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An Act that Parliament issued that requires colonists to put a stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, etc.
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This Act requires the American colonies to provide British soldiers with any needed accomodations and housing.
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A meeting in New York CIty that consisted of representatives from British Colomies in North America. The objective was to create a unified protest against the Stamp Act.
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A document written by the Stamp Act congress that declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
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Parliament repealed the Stamp Act after four months of protest.
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An Act of Parliament that followed the Stamp Act and the changing of the Sugar Act.
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A series of Acts passed by Parliament relating to the British colonies. Imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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A street fight between a patriot mob and a group of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
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The American colonies' means for maintaining communication lines.
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Forced colonists to buy tea from the East India Tea company. This lead to the Boston Tea Party.
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Colonists disguised as American Indians destroyed an entire shipment of tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. This event escalated into the American Revolution.
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A series of ¨punitive¨ laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were made to punish the colonists for dumping the tea.
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A meeting of delegates from tweleve of the colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The location of the first battle of the Revolutionary war.
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A battle fought on Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the Revolutionary war.
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Adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the colonies to declare and fight for independence from Britain.
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The statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the thirteen American colonies no longer were under the control of Great Britain.
