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Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at the end of the French and lndian war, the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation it has become one of the cornerstone of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was mainly about manufacture of rum which was highly lucrative product. Rum is made from molasses, by- product of sugar production. Some sugar cane was grown on sugar plantation in the colonies but the majority was imported from the West Indies. The background to the Sugar Act dates to one of the series of Navigation Acts. -
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French and Indian War
The long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France's expansion into the Ohio river valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the officials Britain declaration of war in 1756. -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act , which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the seven year war (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as revenue secure. Arguing that only their own representatives assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence. -
Townshend act
The Townshend Acts were 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
The Boston massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5,1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonist were killed and this led to a campaign by speech- writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea act
The Tea Act of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolution war (1775-83). The acts main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India company, a key actor in the British encomy. -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India company, British parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignee in Charlestown, New York , and Philadelphia rejected tea shipment, merchants in Boston refused to concede to potriot pressure. -
Intolerable Actas
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term 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. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776.
