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Proclamation Line
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The first act which was the first Direct Tax on the colonists. Almost all printed material were taxed, including newspapers, posters, deeds, and even playing cards. -
Quartering Act
This act required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers. Also, to help to collect taxes from the colonists , it was a British show of force. -
Declaratory Act
The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo 3 c 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
he Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
Britain dispatched 1,000 troops to Boston to keep order, where colonists heckled them. British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonists, killing 5 colonists. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
Tea Act
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. This act Lowered the tax on British Tea, making it cheaper than the non-British tea the colonists smuggled. -
Boston Tea Party
The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
Considered by many the start of the American Revolution. At concord, 400 minutemen attacked and chased the British back to Boston, killing 99 troops local militias surrounded the British in Boston. -
Common Sense
writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. At the time Paine wrote “Common Sense,” most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonists’ argument with the crown when he wrote the following: “Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. -
Declaration of Independence
In Congress, future president John Adams vocally pushes for independence, On July 4,1776 congress made the decision to become independent from Britain
