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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation Act
It was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War -
The sugar act
Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned importation of rum and French wines. -
The Stamp Act
It was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
The Quartering Act
It outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
It was the First Congress of the American Colonies in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
It was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress which declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
Declaratory Act
It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Stamp Act Repealed
This act led an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation. -
Townshend Acts
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend which imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Tea Act
An act of the British Parliament that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the Boston Tea Party. -
Committees of correspondence
The American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
A serie of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington & Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts. -
Bunker Hill
The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston, -
Appeal to reason rejected (aka: Olive Branch Petition)
It was the colonists' last ditch effort to make peace with the British king and avoid a war between Britain and the colonies. -
Common Sense
It is pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
It is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain