Timeline by Jude Pritchard

Proclamation 1763

pritchardjude11 — 2024-09-25 18:03:05 UTC

October 7, 1763-The proclamation was declared by the British crown at the end of the french and Indian war in North America. Mainly intended by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.

Sugar Act

pritchardjude11 — 2024-09-25 18:20:04 UTC

April 5, 1764-The sugar act was a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties.

Stamp Act

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:08:31 UTC

March 22, 1765-The first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. Which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War (1756-63).

Sons of Liberty

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:29:10 UTC

March 1765-Coordinated colonial groups that took radical action against unpopular British policies from 1765 onwards. The reality is that ‘Sons of Liberty’ was an umbrella term that described a range of individuals and groups who opposed British policy and actions.

Quartering Acts

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:31:24 UTC

March 24, 1765-The British parliamentary provision was an amendment to the annual Mutiny Act requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.

Townshend Acts

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:32:36 UTC

June 15, 1767-The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. British sent troops to America to enforce the unpopular new laws

Boston Massacre

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:35:06 UTC

March 5, 1770-A deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.

Tea Act

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:35:46 UTC

May 10, 1773-Was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company.

Boston Tea Party

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:40:53 UTC

December 16, 1773-The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea.

Intolerable Acts

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:43:45 UTC

June, 1774-The Intolerable Acts were Britain's harsh response to the Boston Tea Party, a colonial protest against tea taxes. The acts closed the port of Boston.

First Continental Congress

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:44:25 UTC

September 5th 1774-The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies, and later the United States, from 1774 to 1789. The First Continental Congress, comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Intolerable Acts.

Lexington and Concord

pritchardjude11 — 2024-10-01 17:45:31 UTC

April 19, 1775-Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord.