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Proclamation Act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
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U.S. History Timeline
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Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies -
Tea Act
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773 -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. On that night hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord -
Treaty of Paris
Negotiation between the United States and Great Britain, that ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.