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Treaty of Paris 1763
The treaty of Paris 1763 was the treaty that ended the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation Act
Said that colonies could not expand past the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
A revenue raising law that the British hoped other nations would import their goods instead of their competitors. -
Stamp Act
The act stated that many printed materials in the colonies must be on stamped paper produced in London. -
Quartering Act
A law stating that local governments of American colonies needed to provide housing for British soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
The delegates of the Stamp Act Congress wrote a Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
It stated that taxes on British colonists without consent were unconstitutional -
Stamp Act Repealed
Months of protests and an appeal by Ben Franklin led to the repeal of the Stamp Act -
Declaratory Act
Said that British Parliament's taxing was the same in the colonies as in Great Britain -
Townshend Act
Tax on imported goods such as glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
A mob was throwing stuff at British soldiers who opened fire on the crowd ending in the death of several colonists. -
Committee of Correspondence
Rallied colonists against British policy and established a political union in the 13 colonies -
Tea Act
Reduce the massive amount of tea the financially troubled British East India Company -
Boston Tea Party
Sam Adams and the sons of liberty boarded 3 ships and threw 342 tea chests overboard -
Intolerable acts
Laws passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
1st Continental Congress
It was a meeting with 12 of the 13 colonies to organize a resistance to the intolerable acts. -
Lexington and Concord
It was a battle where the British were supposed to take weapons away from the colonists but they fight back and end up beating 700 British soldiers -
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill was a battle fought in the early stages of the war in Charlestown, Massachusetts -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
An attempt to assert the rights of colonists but remain loyal to the king -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine recommending independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
The statement that was signed at the second congressional congress that declared our independence from Great Britain.