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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were passed on September 13th, 1660. It stated that products not produced by the mother country had to shipped to only England and the English colonies. The products consisted of things such as cotton, tobacco, and sugar. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war is also known as the Seven Year war, it was fought between Great Britain and France. France's expansion over into the Ohio river kept causing conflicts with British colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, 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. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaratory Acts
The Declaratory Acts stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
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Townshend Act
Townshend Acts, in U.S. colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collections of revenue duties. The British American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored them. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre sparked the beginning of the American Revolutionary war. It is known as the Incident on King Street by the British. British army soldiers killed 5 men and wounded 6 others. It began over a minor disagreement by a colonist and a soldier. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships in the Boston Harbor and dump out 342 chests of tea into the water. -
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First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large amount of tea into the Boston Harbor in reaction of being taxed by the British. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the colonial war effect, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776.
