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Treaty of Paris
Was signed ending the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which forbid all settlement past a line right next to the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
An act that was past that said that all newspapers and legal and commercial documents had to have a stamp by the government -
Declaratory Act
It was an act that was past by the parliament of Great British. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp act -
Townshend Acts
The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. began 1767 by Great Britain -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was where 5 men were brutally murdered by Boston troops -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Tea Act
In 1773 Act was passed giving a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. -
Intolerable Acts
The acts were pasted by the British parliament in 1774 and they were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Midnight Ride: Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
On April 18 he ordered British troops to march against Concord and Lexington. Revere got to Lexington before Dawes, but they both went to warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock and then set out for Concord. Along the way they were joined by Samuel Prescott, a Patriot who had been riding home after visiting a friend. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War where British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
2nd Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence by making the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.