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Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of the proclamation was to establish Britain's vast North American empire, and to have good relations with Native Americans trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. The Proclamation forbade colonists of the thirteen colonies from settling or buying land west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
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Sugar Act of 1764
It placed a tax of three cents on sugar that was bought by the American colonists. It also added tax on molasess to stop the colonists from smuggling it in. -
Stamp Act 1765
The act required that all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies be printed on stamp paper -
Quartering Act 1765
Parliament required colonial legislatures to provide supplies and quarters for troops stationed in America. -
Stamp Act Congress
Twenty-seven representatives from thirteen colonies met in New York. When the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, colonists were more than eager to show their displeasure towards it. -
Declaratory Act 1766
It stated that Britain could still pass laws affecting the colonies and it also gave Parliament power over the colonies. -
Townshend Acts 1767
The Townsend Act was the British Parliament's tax on the American colony that led to the taxation of imported goods, one which was tea. It resulted in the Boston tea party. -
The Boston Massacre
An incident involving the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops. This event helped spark the rebellion in some of the British colonies in America which culminated in the American Revolution. -
Tea Act 1773
The American colony was taxed for every load of tea brought into port,especially Boston Harbor. -
Boston Tea Party
Officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
The Coercive Act
The Coercive Acts closed the ports of Boston until the Leaders paid for the tea that was dumped into the harbor by the Sons of Liberty in 1773. -
Quebec Act 1774
A rule imposed by the British Parliament to set the new authority of the province of Quebec -
1st Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the beginning of the American Revolution against the Britsh. Militia were fighting against well trained British Soldiers. -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Olive Branch Petition
A letter written by the Second Continental Congress to King George, addressing colonial problems and also a last resort to avoid futher bloodshed in the americas. -
Decleration of Independance
The document announced that the thirteen American colonies, at that time at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
