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October 7, 1763

At the end of the French and Indian War, the British made a proclamation, which was intended to conciliate the Indians by checking their encroachment of the people who settled on their land. At the end of this war, Britain gained a lot of valuable North American land, but they weren't able to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation was to ensure that nobody would settle past a drawn line along the Appalachn Mountains.

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April 5, 1764

The Sugar Act ensured that England would gain profit from the importation of molasses. It was also made to raise revenue from the colonists. The colonists usually evaded the tax of six pence, so parliament passed the Sugar Act to make it three pence per gallon. The Sugar Act also put taxes on imported goods such as sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico. It also regulated the export of lumber and iron.

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March 22, 1765

The Stamp Act was the first internal tax put directly on the American colonists by the British government. The act put a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. It came in a time where the British were in a very large debt from the Seven Years' War. The colonists thought that the tax was unconstitutional, and that their own representative assembly could tax themselves. Because of this, they resorted to violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.

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May 3, 1765

British officials found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of their troops. It required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks, but if the barracks were too small, the local colonists had to house the soldiers in their homes

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October 7, 1766

The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City. The representatives who went to the meeting were from nine of the British colonies in North America. At this meeting, the representatives wanted to start an unified protest against the Stamp Act.

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1766

The Declaratory Act was a British law that was passed in the middle of March at the same time the Stamp Act was repealed. It was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies. The declaration stated that Parliament's body was the same in America and Britain, and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding the colonies. This act did not fix the matter of being able to tax without representation.

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June 15, 1767

The Townshend Acts imposed duties on all glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. The English thought these taxes would lessen the imperial expenses, but the Americans thought it was just an abuse of power, which resulted in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution.

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March 5, 1770

The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. The British soldiers showed up because of a snowballing crowd which was hurting a sentry. The British were forced to fire, and when they did, they killed three colonists immediately, and two died of later wounds, one of which was Crispus Attucks who was of . Nine British men were thrown in jail because of this incident, one of which was Captain Thomas Peterson.

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May 10, 1773

It was an act passed by parliament on May 10, 1773. It was designed to  bail out the British East India Company. Also, it was supposed to expand the companies monopoly to all British colonies. It was a follow-up to the Revenue Act, which was one of the laws in the Townshend Acts

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December 16, 1773

This was an act of defiance for the colonists because they were tired of being taxed. On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard because merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

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March 24, 1774

The Intolerable Acts were a series of British Laws which were passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the acts were aimed at Massachusetts colonists for taking place in the Boston Tea Party. The fifth act, which was related to Quebec, was seen as an additional threat to the liberty and expansion of the colonies.