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#1 Treaty of Paris
This treaty formally ended the French and Indian War. It also marked the era of British dominance outside of Europe. -
#2 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. Which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
#3 Committee of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials.The first formal committee was established in Boston in 1764 to rally opposition to the Currency Act and unpopular reforms imposed on the customs service. -
#4 The Sugar Act
This act was a revenue-raising act that proceded the molasses act of 1733. The sugar act halved the molasses act, which was 6 pence, so the british hoped it would be collected. -
#5 The Quartering Act
Most colonies had supplied provisions during the war, but the issue was disputed in peacetime. The Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764,The result was the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested. No standing army had been kept in the colonies before the French and Indian War.This Quartering Act was given Royal Assent on May 15,1765. -
#6 Stamp Act Congress
It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxes. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for virtually all business in the colonies, and was coming into effect November 1. -
#7 Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
#8 The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed "revenue stamp." -
#10 Declaratory Act
the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. Britian took all power from the colonies and gave it to themselves. -
#9 Stamp Act Repealed
On February 21, a resolution to repeal the Stamp Act was introduced and passed by a vote of 276–168.Other resolutions did pass that condemned the riots and demanded compensation from the colonies for those who suffered losses because of the actions of the mobs. -
#11 Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. Crowds mobbed the customs office, forcing the officials to retire to a British Warship in the Harbor. Troops from England and Nova Scotia marched in to occupy Boston on October 1, 1768. -
#12 Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. Paul Revere spread this incident through the colonies by horse back. -
#13 The Tea Act
It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was suppose to help the struggling British East India Company, which it did but it also helped start the American Revolution. -
#14 1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
#15 Boston Tea Party
Colonist who were made about the new Tea Tax the British hade just inforced went to several ships that were docked and threw the tea barrels overboard.Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation." -
#16 Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
#17 Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
#18 Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle is named for Bunker Hill, which was objective of both the colonial and British troops. The battle is famous for what the colonial Colonel, William Prescott, said to his troops, "Do not fire until you can see the whites of your enemies eyes." -
#19 Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. However, the petition was followed by the July 6 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, making its success in London improbable. -
#20 Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language. Washington had it read to all his troops, which at the time had surrounded the British army in Boston. -
#21 Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.
