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French & Indian War
May 28, 1754-Feb 10, 1763. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, along w Native American allies. -
proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's laws 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. -
Townshend Act
June 29, 1767. a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. A lot of colonists were killed and it led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse to the citizenry. -
Tea Act
passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773 launched the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes -
Boston Tea Party
a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
The British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776 the congress passed a new law. Declaration of Independence. No more slavery. No more listening to everyone else. You got to be an independent citizen. hint hint , 4thof July is Independence Day. -
sugar act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
