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French and Indian War
A battle between the colonists and the people of the French territory, this conflict began over fights about land. -
Proclamation Line
This line prohibited the colonists to settle on the opposite side, the line spread over the applalation mountains -
Sugar act
This was a tax on sugar being imported into the colonies. This law was passed by the British parliament. -
Stamp Act
A act that required produced goods to have a paid for stamp on them all -
Quartering Act
This act required colonised to house feed and hare for British soldiers in the colonies. -
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Sons of Liberty
A secret group in the colonies to rebel against British taxation on the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
This act accopanied the repel of the stamp act and changed the licensing lf the sugar act -
Townshend Act
Series of measures passed by British parliament That taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
An incident when British soldiers shot five locals while under harassment. -
Committees of Correspondence
Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty dumped tea in to the boston harbor to rebel againdst british taxes -
Intolerable acts
A series of laws passed by the British after the Boston Tea Party. There where 4 acts passed as reaprasial for the tea act that lead to the voston massacre -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by thomas paine, It advocated Independance from britain to the people of the colonies -
Declaration of Independence
A document that was written by representatives from all 13 states and declared separation from Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty that ended the revolutionary war and was signed by the king of england, king george III, and the represenatives from the colonies.