-
Period: to
Pontiac's Rebellion
-
Treaty of Paris
A treaty between Great Britain and United States of America to end the American Revolutionary war. -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain's acquisition of French Territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The British Parliament made American colonies stamp on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Quartering act
Local governments of the American colonies provided British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declaratory Act
The repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend act
Acts of the British Parliament that placed taxes on tea, paper, lead and paint that was imported into the American colonies.