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Navigation acts
Navigation acts were laws passed to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonist buy english goods and limited trade between colonies and other countries. -
Proclimation Line
The royal proclamation of 1763 did much to dampen that celebration.The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion -
Writs Of Assistance
The British officials in the colonies called for a crackdown on smuggling. Writs of assistance were documents which served as a general search warrant, allowing customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods. -
The treaty of paris
The document that ended the war between the French and Brithish over the Ohio River valley. This treatyu ended French power in north america and expanded british teritory. -
Sugat Act
As protests against the Sugar Act developed, it was the economic impact rather than the constitutional issue of taxation without representation that was the main focus for the colonists. The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament on 5 April 1764, and it arrived in the colonies at a time of economic depression. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting held in New York City. It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise. -
Quartering Act
The Grenville government built up British troop strength in colonial North America at the end of the French and Indian War to protect the colonies against threats posed by remaining Frenchmen and Indians. March 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment. -
Decloratory Act
Declaratory Act declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend act imposed an indirect tax on the colonists that he called duties. In 1767, British Parliament passed on the Townshend acts. One act placed tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colonies. The protests against the duties were especially violent in Boston. -
Boston massacre
Conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time. The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain. -
Tea act
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston tea party
The cause of the Intolerable Acts was King George was furious about the Boston Tea Party and closed the harbor and took away their self government until all the tea was paid for. The effect was these acts just stirred up more british hating feelings. Now people in all 13 colonies were angry. -
Coersive
In law, coercion is codified as a duress crime. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in a way contrary to their own interests. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain/injury or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat. -
First continental congress
In the end, the voices of compromise carried the day. Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774. -
Second Continental Congress
However, the following day, the Congress issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, which explained and justified the 13 colonies' decision to go to war. This had the effect of invalidating the Olive Branch Petition, which the British summarily rejected. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
For the British, 73 were killed, 174 were wounded, and 26 were missing. While the colonists lost many minutemen, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America.