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  • Proclamation Act

    Proclamation Act
    George III stated none can settle west of the appalachin mountains.
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    Cause of Revolutionary War

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    The first attempt to finance and defense of the colonies, led to widespread protests.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies. A levy was placed.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to british garrisons.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Parliment finalizes the repeal of the stamp act.

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    Taxes on tea and paper.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    5 civilians were killed.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Sold the tea directly to the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Act of defiance towards the british goverment by the american colonists.

  • Coercive Act

    Coercive Act
    A series of british measures passed in 1774 and desighned to punish the massachusettes colonists for the boston tea party.

  • First Continental Congress Meeting

    First Continental Congress Meeting
    Colonial delegates meet to organizes opposition to the intolerable act.

  • Declaration Of Rights And Grivences

    Declaration Of Rights And Grivences
    A document written by the stamp act congress and passed on Oct 19, 1765 it declared that taxes imposed on british colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.