Taxes and Responses

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    French and Indian War

    The Seven Years’ War is called the French and Indian War in the colonies lasted from 1756 to 1763 then it lead to it making it a big struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War
  • Proclamation of 1763

    At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,main to conciliate the Indians by checking the approachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
  • Sugar Act

    On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Molasses Act Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six cents per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses.
  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first tax 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 Years’ War
  • Quartering Act

    Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, stables, ale house, and the houses of sellers of wine.
  • Townsend Act

    The Townshend Acts were actually a series of taxes and laws imposed upon the colonists. The first, the Townshend Revenue Act, placed a tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. Other bills included in the Townshend Acts contributed to the colonists' angry reaction.
  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds; among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage.
  • Comitee of Correspondance

    The Committees of Correspondence made a rallie opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British. They threw the tea into the ocean to get rid of it.
  • Boston Tea Party

    The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War (1754–63).
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    First Continental

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
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    Second Continental Congress

    It succeeded the First Continental Congress, met in Philadelphia I think and between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and towards independence it adopted the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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    Common Sense Pamphlet

    Common Sense was a pamphlet Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to persuade people in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.The main impact of this pamphlet was to help cause the American colonists to decide to fight for independence.
  • Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
  • Declaration Of Independence

    The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence written largely by Jefferson in Philadelphia on July 4, a date now celebrated as the birth of American independence.The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House