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Proclamation of 1763
1763 mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Stamp Act
1765 was a tax established on all sorts of paper in the american colonies -
Quartering Act
1765 it outlined the locations in which the british soldiers could seek shelter in the american colonies -
Quartering Act
1765 it outlined the locations in which the british soldiers could seek shelter in the american colonies. -
Townshend Acts
1767 was a set of taxes offered in a way to punish the american colonies -
Boston Massacre
- Street fight between citizens and british soldiers.
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Tea Act
1773, was one of several measurements imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government -
Boston Tea Party
342 crates of tea in the Boston Harbor, renamed the intolerable acts. 1773. -
2nd Continental Congress
1774 The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Intolerable Acts
1774, laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston Tea Party, also referred to as the Coercive Acts. -
1st Continental Congress
- colonial resistance to Parliament’s Coercive Acts.
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Olive Branch Petition
to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies 1775 -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First battles in the american revolutionary war. 1775 -
Declaration of Independence
The colonists motivation for independence. 1776 -
Declaratory Act
- Colonists aren’t listening to british demands.
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Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
To influence the colonies their independence from Britain 1776 -
Articles of Confederation
Written document the explained the functions of the government. 1781 -
Treaty of Paris
Revolutionary War, 1783, signed in Paris by King George lll, which ended the American Rev. War. -
English (British) Bill of Rights
Ten amendments. Guarantee freedom. 1791