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A boundary is drawn in the Appalachian Mountains, prohibiting the colonists from settling on French territory acquired after the final French Indian War. -
In order to carve through the enormous debt left after the French Indian Wars, British officials decide to place levied taxes on products such as coffee, wine, and refined sugar. The tax on molasses, however, is reduced by half. -
Currency for the colonies to use in trade is regulated only by the British government. Only British currency is used, and there is a constant shortage of currency in the colonies. There are no common bills amongst the colonies that do the same job. -
British Parliament places an act on all paper goods for the colonists to pay, once again to contribute to repaying their massive war debt. Anyone who defies this act -- counterfeiting money, for example -- is put to death. -
Colonial legislatures in North America are responsible for paying for barracks for British soldiers to lodge in. Other public housing is paid for by colonial legislatures, also for the purpose of housing British troops. -
After the raucous Stamp Act, Britain declares that its ability to tax and regulate trade in North America is the same as in the mother country. -
Certain duties are placed on British exports into North America. Moreover, troops are sent to supervise the colonists and enforce their compliance with the act. -
Patriots gather to protest the gathering of British troops in the colonies. Colonists throw miscellaneous objects, including snowballs, at guards standing outside the Customs House building. One man, Private Hugh Montgomery, is hit. The guards open fire on the group of protesters. There are five deaths and three injuries. Two soldiers are later branded with the letter M on their thumbs to call out their murderous acts. These deaths are considered the first of the American Revolution. -
Griffin's Wharf, Massachusetts: American colonists dump 342 chests of British West India tea into the harbor. It is the first act of true rebellion against the British and their various acts of control over the colonies. Colonists all around are now inspired to fight and rally against the tyranny they have been facing thus far. -
These four laws, also known as the Coercive Acts, are passed to "punish" the colony of Massachusetts for the acts leading up to the Boston Massacre. These acts (Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act) are extremely oppressive. Resistance grows in the colonies. -
Any British soldier in the colonies who requires lodging and food is permitted to find residence and hospitality in local unoccupied buildings, regardless of whether or not the area's barracks are full. Public sanctions are now more accessible to British troops stationed in the colonies. -
The Proclamation of 1763 is repealed. It is Britain's attempt at earning loyalty of the French living in the province of Quebec. North American colonists are still not permitted to settle west of the Ohio River Valley. Colonists are once again angered.