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Proclamation Line, 1763
King George lll following Great Britain's acquistion of French territory in North America following the end of the French and Indian wars with the peace of Paris, which concluded the 7 years' was in Europe and the French Indian war in America. -
Stamp Act, 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quatering Act, 1765
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declaratory Act, 1766
Stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass ;aws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts, 1767
Were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on inports of glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. -
Boston Massacre, 1770
Pre-revolutionary incident growing out of the anger against the British troops sent to Boston to Maintain order and to eforce the toownshend acts. -
Committee of Correspondence, 1772
railed colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the 13 colonies. -
Tea Act, 1773
Granted the British East Indian company tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American Colonies. -
Boston Tea Party, 1773
Was a violent protest by American Colonists against King George lll's rule in America -
Intolerable of Coercile Acts, 1774
Were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party. -
"Shot Heard Around The World", 1775
Hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stuckpiled there by American colonists. -
Common Sence, 1776
Written by Thomas Paine, advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13th colonies. -
Declaration of Independence, 1776
Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted second continental congress, states the reasons the british colonies of North American sought independent in July of 1776.
