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Proclamation of 1763
separated colonial settlers from Indians -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by having a stamp duty on newspapers and legal documents. -
Declaratory Act
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 -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas. -
Townshend Acts
were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed five colonists. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
the American Patriots' term for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Midnight Ride
"the british are coming" was said by revere,cheswell,and dawes. -
Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence
