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• Navigation Acts


  1733 - Molasses act - enforced sixpence per gallon of molasses or sugar imported from other European powers.

  1750 - Iron Act - banned export of colonial iron outside of empire
• Royal Proclamation 


  1763 - established the proclamation line on the Appalachians.
• Grenville's anti-smuggling measures


  1763 - anti-smuggling officials now had to live in the colonies and they could not delegate tasks to deputies
• Sugar act


  1764 - reduced to 3d (three pence) per gallon of molasses. It was introduced on the condition it was more strictly enforced. This was due to make £78,000 a year and it also added increased duties on wine, silk, and coffee imported from other European powers
• Currency Act


  1764 - Banned colonial paper money. This damaged America's economy
• Stamp Act


  Announced in parliament in 1764. Introduced to the colonies in 1765. Required stamps to be formally affixed to all legal papers and official documents and publications. This meant all of those were taxed. This was to pay for the standing army now present in the colonies. Lighter restrictions than in Britain
• Mutiny (Quartering) Act


  1765 - Banned British troops from being quartered in private residences. In banning this, it forced the Colonial legislatures to pay for the creation of barracks to quarter the troops.
• Declaratory Act


  1766 - Repealed Stamp Act + Sugar Act, but introduced the Free Port Act and Revenue Act
• Revenue Act


  1766 - introduced by the Declaratory Act and decreased the duty paid on molasses to 1 pence per gallon
• Free Port Act


  1766 - Introduced in the Declaratory Act. Opened 6 ports in the West Indies to French and Spanish trade. This annoyed the colonists in America because they were still paying import duties from other colonial powers.
• Townshend Duties


  1767 - Introduced duties on colonial imports of glass, wine, china, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
• New York Restraining Act


  1767 - Enforced the Quartering Acts. New York assembly prohibited from taking any legislative action until it complied with the quartering acts.
• Townshend Duties repealed


  1770 - All duties repealed apart from on tea.
• Tea Act


  1773 - Brought in to aid failing East India Company. This abolished British Duties on the company's goods. Lead to the Boston Tea Party.
• Coercive Acts


  1774 - Made up of Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act
• Boston Port Act


  1774 - Coercive Act. Closed Boston to all trade until the destroyed tea was paid for.
• Massachusetts Government Act


  1774 - Coercive Act. Allowed the royal governor to appoint and remove most civil officials. Colonial assemblies had to be held with his permission
• Impartial Administration of Justice Act

  1774 - Coercive Act. All British officers on trial would now be trialled in Britain
• Quartering Act


  1774 - Coercive Act. Gave greater authority to military commanders seeking to house their troops. Allowed British troops to once again be housed in private residences
• Parliament declare Massachusetts in a state of rebellion


  1775
• Proclamation of Rebellion


  August 1775 - Issued after the battle of Bunker Hill. Because King George refused to read the olive branch petition, this also served as an answer to that. Declared the colonies to be in a state of rebellion
• Quebec Act


  1774 - Extension of Quebec territory boundary south to Ohio + Mississippi rivers. Curbed Western expansion
• Stamp Act Congress


  October 1765 - discussed different ways to protest British taxation. Meet in New York
• New England Restraining Act

  1775 - Limited New England's trade to only Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies. banned fishing near Newfoundland and most of America's Atlantic coast apart from with special permits. Brought in a naval blockade 1 July 1775 to limit trade with other colonies as well.
• Boston Tea Party


  1773 - Tea Act Protest organized by the Sons of Liberty. 340 EIC chests of tea thrown overboard in Boston Harbour
• Flight of the governors

  Dunmore (Virginia) June 1775

  Martin (North Carolina) July 1775

  Campbell (South Carolina) September 1775

  Wright (Georgia) February 1776
• Prohibitory act


  1775 - Removed the colonies from protection of the crown, banned trade with them, allowed the seizure of American ships at sea by Britain (regardless of whether the owners were rebels or loyalists)
• Battle of Trenton


  December 1776 - Washington's winter campaign provided many boosts to colonial morale as they capture Princeton and Trenton in New Jersey off the Hessians
• Great Awakening 


  1740-50: led to invention of congregationalist churches. This led to American society becoming a lot more democratic - further severing ties between Britain and Colonies.
• Chase through the Carolinas


  For 3 months General Cornwallis chased General Greene through the Carolinas
• Kentucky joins the union

  1792
• Tennessee joins the union

  1796
• Report on Manufactures


  1791 - Set out a vision of the US as a commercial and industrial power that anticipated its development in the 19th and 20th centuries. Written by Alexander Hamilton
• Jay treaty


  1794 - GB returned forts in the Northwest to USA. Trade with Britain benefitted US economy
• Jefferson leaves Washington's cabinet

  December 1793
• Annapolis Convention


  1786 - Held to discuss and reverse the protectionist trade policies brought in by the states. New York was especially bad for this. This convention led to the Philadelphia Convention
• Letters of 'Marque and Reprisal'


  Issued by the Continental Congress after the 1775 Prohibitory act. This allowed Americans to arm private ships and attack British vessels. Answered for in admiralty courts. These people were called privateers
• Judiciary Act


  1789 - established federal courts throughout the country. Ensured that federal laws and rights would be resolved uniformly throughout the country
• Treaty of Greenville


  1795 - Acquired the land for Indiana and Ohio from the Native American tribes after the Battle of Fallen Timbers
• Mount Vernon Conference


  1785 - Held at Washington's house. Between Maryland and Virginia to establish what would be done with the Potomac River (state borders dispute). Established Potomac Company