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The Proclamation Line of 1763
A boundry line that all 13 colonies could not pass -
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Causes of the American Revolution
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Sugar Act
An import tax on several products,including molasses. -
Stamp Act passed
Colonists had to buy tax stamps to place on stuff like newspapers,licenses,contracts, and other documents. -
Quartering Act
To save money, colonists had to house British troops and feed them -
Townshend Act
British would no longer tax products or activites inside the colonies -
Boston Massacre
Parliament repealed all the townshed duties exept the one on tea after a crowd in Boston surrounded and attacking a group of soldiers -
Tea Act
The Tea Act lowered the prices of tea by allowing the East India Company to ship directly to the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
the Sons of Liberty colonists dumped the tea from the East India Company into the sea -
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
These were four really harsh new laws passed by Parliment in response to the Boston Tea Party -
Committees of Correspondence
A meeting to discuss what the colonies would do next in response to the British Intolerable Acts -
1st Continental Congress
The first meeting of the Committee of Correspondence where they demanded the end of the Intolerable Acts and declared they had the right govern and tax themselves. -
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen were lined up and the British ordered them to leave, they refused. Then a unknown shot was fired known as the shot heard round the world as it was the first shot of the Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Congress felt like they needed to prepare for war and form an army. -
Declaration of Independence
A document signed by the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independence from Britain.
