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Stamp Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great British that unwelcome a direct tax on the colonies of British America. Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Previous taxes the Stamp tax was had to be paid in valid British currency. -
Quartering Act
Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765). -
Boston Massacre
Known as the Incident on King Street. An incident on March 5, 1770 in which the British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. This incident was lead Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Tea Act
The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament. Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies..Along with tea, the Townshend Revenue Act also taxed glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party. a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
2nd Continental Congress
It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Thomas Panie's Common Sense
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Jefferson showed that the colonists had a right to separate from the king and have their own government. The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776. The Declaration is still important because it says the American people believe in equal rights for all. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
