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proclamination Line
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, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
stamp act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declaratory act
commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townsend act
the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
the Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770, to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committee of Correspondence
The shot heard round the world is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. -
tea act
The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
this famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. -
intolerable or Coercive Acts
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Shot heard around the world
The shot heard round the world is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. -
common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,
