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Proclamation Line
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 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 Seven Years War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. -
Quartering Act
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 and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America of the acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue, the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren Massachusetts Historical Society -
tea act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773 -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts also called the Coercive Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775 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, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen -
Shot Heard Around the World"
And fired the shot heard round the world. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emersons Concord Hymn and refers to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War.
