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Proclamation
Created by King George III, it forbabe settlers to settle past the line which was the Appalachian Mountains. It helped organize the relationship with the Native North Americans for trade, settlement, and land purchases. This also created four new colonies. Those colonies were Quebec, East and West Florida, and Grenada. -
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Sugar Act
This act was passed by The Parliament of Great Britain. It is also know as the American Revenue Act. This act raised duties of foreign imported goods by the colonies to give the West Indies/British a bigger supply for their market. -
Stamp Act
Enforced Taxes by the Great Britain Parliament. It was a way to earn more money in the colonies by charging documents, papers, and many more things through the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The Parliament addressed this to protect and help the troops deployed to stay safe incase there were any threats from the french and indians since the seven year war was over. The colonial assembly was to provide basic needs for the soliders placed within the border. This included bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, and candles. The law expanded one year later and then provided places/taverns for the soldiers to sleep in. -
Stamp Act Congress
The first time they tried this it was somewhat a failure, partly because only nine of the colonies sent delegates. Some other colonies were still not present. The main goal of the congress was to make laws in all of the colonies. This became the Stamp Act Resolves. This let the congress make laws in the colonies, but some disagreed and refused to sign it. -
Declarartory Act
This was an act the was passed at the same time the stamp act was repealed. This act was created by the Parliament of Great Britain, which allowed to pass laws that were mandatory in the American clonies -
Townshend Acts
These acts were a series passed in the beginning of 1767. They lasted from June 15-July 2 1767. Introduced by the Parliament of Great Britain, it extended to all the North American colonies. These were named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed this program. -
Boston Massacre
People believe that this was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. This is known as the "Incident on Kings Street", in which the British Army soldiers killed five ordinanry citizens and injured six others. This happened because riots were started against the British soldiers, and unfortunatley had to end with many people killed. -
Tea Act
Passed by the Parliament, but not to raise more money or to force taxes, but designed to give up eighteen million pounds of unsold tea to the East India Company. Some colonies such as Pennsylvania, New York, and Charleston, did not want the tea so they left the ships to rot. In boston, they had ships in port because the royal govenor was rude and didnt allow them to unload. Since there were so many ships with so many tea bags, this led up to the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
This took place when when a class of Massachusets Patriots were dissaproving the supply of trade on the tea importation. They had 342 boxes of tea and since they didnt know what to do with all of them the people decided to throw them into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts
Also know as the Intolerable Acts, these were laws passed by the British Parliament in Massachusetts. They got rid of there self-governing and importatnt rights, causing disaproval in the thirteen colonies. This was the main cause of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775. -
Quebec Act
An act of the Parliament of Great Britain, setting a bunch of plans of governence in the Province of Quebec. Those plans were the cause of the expantion of territory, the oath of allegiance, free practice in the Catholic faith, restored the French law, and restored the Catholic churches right to impose. -
1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This congress started to meet from September 5th - October 26th, 1774, in the early American Revolution. This congress had a maximum number of congressmen; fifty-six; and met on occasions disscussing important issues, such as ecomomic boycott. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was the first real battle of the American revolutionary War. This battle marked an outbreak between the thirteen colonies and the kingdom of Great Britain. They fought in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
2nd Continental Congress
Most of the same fifty-six delegates attended and some were new including Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylania and John Hancock of Massachusetts. At this disscussion, they disscused about the same stuff as the first continental congress. -
Olive Branch Petition
This petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in the mid summer of 1775. This petition declared that there will be loyalty to Great Britain and will prevent future conflict. -
Declaration of Independence
This document was asserting independece in all of the Great Britain, and their colonies. Rrecording the proclamation from the second Continental Congress, they had may a declaration stating those rules.
