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Proclamation of 1763
An Act which forbid the colonist to move West boyond the Appalachan Mountains. If they broke the law and moved West anyway, the government would not protect them. -
Stamp Act of 1765
A direct tax from the British government that placed a tax on paper goods. It required materials to be printed on British bought paper. -
Townshend Taxes & The Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre- a battle between the British soliders and colonist, killing 5 "innocent" colonists
Townshend Taxes- a tax to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges -
Boston Tea Party
When the colonist went out in the Boston Harbor dressed as Natives, and dumped British tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
Various laws forced upon the colonists in punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
In which about 700 British Army regulars, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. -
Second Continental Congress
A secret convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies -
Battle of Bunker Hill
the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that When the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city 1,200 colonial troops occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, and constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
A persuasive speech written for the common people, declaring the want of freedom -
Declaration of Independence
A declaration callign out freedom from Britian, signed by delegates from 12 of the colonies. -
Battle of Saratoga
Generally regarded as a turning point in the war, the battles on Saratoga were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, in attempt to split the New England Colonies from the rest. -
Battle On Yorktown
A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army and French Army troops against the British -
Treaty of Paris
What ended the American Revolution
