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proclamation of 1763
no settlement of the appalacian mountains .to move onto native Americans Lands -
Sugar Act
in hope that colonists would pay a low tax rather than risk arrest by smuggling ..The colonist should be taxed . -
stamp act
The stamp act required colonist to purchase special stamp paper for every legal document . colonist who disobeyed the law were to be tried in the rice -admiralty court -
Quartering Act
intent to marrying needed the consent , It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Rapeal of stamp Act
the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. he new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Townshend Act/duties
unlike the stamp act/which was a direct tax , with rage and well organized resistance , educated Americans spoke out against the Townsend -
Boston massacre
a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre Expand. colonists were largely outraged at what they saw as a vicious attack on unarmed civilians. Supporters of the Patriot movement were quick to capitalize on this, possible. -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. -
Intolerable Act
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. The Intolerable Acts heavily targeted Massachusetts, and especially Boston, to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party uprising. -
Lexington and concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
Second continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of bunker hill
The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowder.
