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Proclamation Line
Forbade all settlement passing a line mentally drawn along the Appalachian mountains -
Stamp Act
This act was the first direct tax on the colonists -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers -
Declaratory Act
this law declared England's authority to make laws for the colonies -
Townshed Acts
Series of acts taxed items like tea,paper,and glass -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonist , 5 people died -
Committee of Correspondence
The house of burgesses had proposed that each and all legislature made a standing committee for inter colonial correspondence -
Tea Act
Reduce the amount of tea held -
Boston Tea Party
A protest by the sons of liberty in Boston , throwing tea into the Boston harbor -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
A Hard law passed by the British to punish the american colonists -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
A battle that breaks out in Lexington -
Common Sense
A book wrote by Thomas Paine; This book was about the 13 colonies having independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
When we ( the Americas ) got independence from England
