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#1 Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty Of Paris ended the Seven Years war. Britain, Spain, and France all get land in America. -
#2 Proclamation Act
Issued by the British to seperate the Native Americans from the colonists along the Appalachian divide. -
#3 The Sugar Act
Reduced the tax on imported molasses and adds to the list of products that the colonists can only export to Britain. -
#4 The Stamp Act
An Act that Parliament issued that requires colonists to put a stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, etc. -
#5 The Quartering Act
This Act requires the American colonies to provide British soldiers with any needed accomodations and housing. -
#6 Stamp Act Congress
A meeting in New York CIty that consisted of representatives from British Colomies in North America. The objective was to create a unified protest against the Stamp Act. -
#7 Declaration of Rights and Grievances
A document written by the Stamp Act congress that declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
#8 Stamp Act Repealed
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act after four months of protest. -
#9 Declaratory Act
An Act of Parliament that followed the Stamp Act and the changing of the Sugar Act. -
#10 Townshend Act
A series of Acts passed by Parliament relating to the British colonies. Imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
#11 Boston Massacre
A street fight between a patriot mob and a group of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
#12 Committee of Correspondence
The American colonies' means for maintaining communication lines. -
#13 Tea Act
Forced colonists to buy tea from the East India Tea company. This lead to the Boston Tea Party. -
#14 Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as American Indians destroyed an entire shipment of tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. This event escalated into the American Revolution. -
#15 Intolerable Acts
A series of ¨punitive¨ laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were made to punish the colonists for dumping the tea. -
#16 First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from tweleve of the colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
#17 Lexington and Concord
The location of the first battle of the Revolutionary war. -
#18 Bunker Hill
A battle fought on Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the Revolutionary war. -
#19 Appeal to Reason Rejected
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain. -
#20 Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the colonies to declare and fight for independence from Britain. -
#21 Declaration of Independence
The statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the thirteen American colonies no longer were under the control of Great Britain.
