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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. Proclamation of 1763 was a law having colonists to stay east of a line drawn on a map along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was one of the new taxes. This law was designed to raise revenue as well as to reinforce British control over the colonies. The Sugar Act lowered the tax on the imported molasses used to produce rum in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act made colonists to provide housing for British soldiers. If a city did not have barracks to house the soldiers, the men were housed in local inns, homes, and stables, or vacant houses or barns. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act made printed materials have a special government stamp. Items were newspapers, playing cards, court documents, and sales receipts for land. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts placed duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and pain all goods that the colonies were to purchase only from Britain. The revenue from the Townshend Acts would be used by the British to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges. -
Boston Massacre
American colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters called themselves patriots. A boy began yelling insults at a British soldier the British soldier hit the boy with his gun. They threw snowballs, ice, and sticks at the soldiers. Then someone hit a soldier with a club, knocking his gun out of his hands. The soldiers were firing at the crowd and some people died. -
Tea Act
The Parliament made the Tea Act, it allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly in the colonies. The Tea Act lowered the price of Tea, on the other hand though it took money from colonial tea merchants. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed by the Parliaments, they wanted to punish the Bostonians. Intolerable Acts prevented Massachusetts from governing itself. -
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress took place in Philadelphia and every colony except Georgia sent delegates. The First Continental Congress meeting was to discuss ways to have the Intolerable Acts repealed. -
The Declaration of Independence
A document was approved by the Continental Congress. The Continental Congress voted to approve independence from Britain.
