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american revolution
The 13 colonies went to war with British. The colonies also defeated the greatest military of all time. So that's when the united states was declared independent. -
Stamp Act
Required colonist to purchase stamps on legal documents, such as, wills, deeds, and death certificates. imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were forced to house British soldiers in their homes. There was a problem Quartering soldiers costs money. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was the repeal of the Stamp Act. Most colonist were furious with this Act because it meant more Acts to come in the future.This act brought absolute power to Britain because they could make there on laws and tax the colonist. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts was a series of acts that happened. The Acts are named after Charles Townshend. These Acts imposed taxes on glass,lead,paints,paper, and teas imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British. Among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men -
committee Of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. The Committee of Correspondence was for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
Tea Act of 1773 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 warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
" shot heard 'round the world"
It happened during the battles of Lexington and Concord. The first shots were fired right at dawn in Lexington. No one knows who fired the first shot in Lexington. -
common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote The Declaration Of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was written to explain why the colonists were declaring independence from Great Britain and why they could. It was about complaints to the British king. -
Proclamation Act
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 War/Seven Years War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
