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Proclamation Line
On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbided colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This established a place for the native americans. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765. The tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on all printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops. The Quartering Act was passed in June 2, 1765 even though the colonists didnt like it. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act which replaced Stamp Act of 1765 when it was repealed. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts hurt the British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts of 1767 was originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament after the repeal of the Stamp Act. The acts were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting duties on imports of lead, paints, paper, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight that was between a patriot mob that were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a grouo of British soldiers.The soldiers ended up killing 5 colonists -
committee of correspondence
The Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
Tea Act
The tea act was one of the last things that caused the revoultionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The tea party was when a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts was the name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large amount of tea into Boston harbor. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The first shots were fired at dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was the day that the Revoultionary War begun and the colonists faught for their Independence. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to fight for independence -
Declaration of Independence
56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia signed the Declaration of Independence. It was a statement announcing that the thirteen American colonies were now independent states. This made them no longer a part of the British Empire.
