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French and Indian War
, it ended with the signing of the treaties Hubertusburg & Paris. The Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holding overseas. The treaty ensured the 13 colonies by removing the European rivals to the opposing sides -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation prohibited individuals from buying tribal territory, just the crown could make those purchases. They issued it to prevent events like the Seven Years' War and or tribes going against the British. -
Sugar Act
The Act established smuggling cases without jury and with the presumption of guilt, these measures led to widespread protest. -
Stamp Act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspaper, and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or stamped paper on which a levy was placed. -
Quartering Act
Colonists required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. -
Townshend Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend. Colonists assembled taxation without representation. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists were mad because the military was there and Britain's colonial policy, it started with a crown harassing a group of soldiers guarding a house. Somebody hit a soldier with a snowball and he discharged his musket and killed 5 people. -
Committees of Corresponding
The Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence, it was a vast network of communication throughout the 13 colonies between patriot leaders. -
Tea Act
Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans thought of it as an indirect tax subsiding a British company. -
Boston Tea Party
Since the Americans saw it as an indirect tax by a British company, they decided to act as if they were Mohawk Indians and dumped money of the East India Company tea into the Boston harbour, 9,000 euros to be exact. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament created 4 laws for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea party, it was a punishment. Colonists acted upon it and boycotted of British goods. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each pf the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Paliament's Coercive Acts -
Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they ran into untrained and angry militia. -
Second Continental Congress
They didn't know if to declare independence from Britain, how the colonists could meet the military threat of the British, a continental army was formed. The American Revolutionary War had already begun. -
Common Sense
It was released anonymously on the newspaper,it challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. It worked for the americans to ask for independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The colonies wanted to be separate from British, the revolutionary war had already begun and several major battles had taken place. The colonies had cut most major ties to England and had established their own congress, currency, army and post office.The United States was to be free of England's influence and all issues between both countries should be dissolved.