Civics

By deonbattle23

  • French & Indian War

    The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France

  • Proclamation of 1763

    After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.

  • Sugar Act

    Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

  • Stamp Act

    an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper

  • Townshed Act

    The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.

  • Boston Massacre

    The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

  • coercive acts

    were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

  • Tea act

    an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston

  • First Continental Congress

    The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States.

  • Quartering Act

    a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.

  • Shot heard from round the world

    The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War

  • Common Sense

    Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government

  • Declaration of Independence

    The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .