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Proclamation Line
the Proclamation of 1763, gave the land between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains to the Native Americans. The Proclamation Line was the western border of the English colonies. Unfortunately, some colonists already lived past the lone and weren't going back. Also, the border was so long that it was very hard for the English to enforce. -
Stamp Act
One of the acts Britain set on the Americans because they needed money to repay the debts they owed after the French-Indian War. The Stamp Act was the first act where the colonists were directly taxed, and this infuriated the Americans of course. The Stamp Act basically said that all documents, papers, etc. of the sort must have a stamp on it to be legal. That's all I know, really. Oh, it came after the Sugar Act of 1764 I believe. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers. They were amendments to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament. Originally intended as a response to problems that arose during The French and Indian War they later became a source of tension between inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London. -
Declaratory Act
Britain issued the Declaratory Act of 1766. Colonists were so overjoyed at the repeal of the Stamp Act, however, they failed to see the importance of the Declaratory Act. As a result of the Declaratory Act, British Parliament began issuing several Acts against the United States, and the U.S. could do virtually nothing against them, simply because Britain said that they were "for the good of the empire." -
Townshend Acts
The Townsend Act was the British Parliament's tax on the American colony that led to the taxation of imported goods, one of which was tea. It eventually resulted in the Boston tea party when colonists garbed as native Americans dumped the tea in Boston Harbor. Although it was not a direct tax its effect was felt throughout the colonies. Taxation without representation became the cry of the land. -
Boston Massacre
Boston townspeople harassed a group of British Soldiers. The Soldiers Shot at the crowd. John Adams then decides to defend the British Soldiers. The Court says the soldiers were innocent because the crowd harassed them and according to British law they are allowed to fire on those who disrupt them or attack them while at sentry. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees were originally loosely organized groups in the Colonies that spread the news and helped to organize actions in protest of the British government (and others). Since most news was hand written and hand and horse carried a a small committee concentrating on spreading their views of the news was extremely effective. The letters did not have to go to everybody, just the influential. -
Tea Act
The American colony was taxed for every load of tea brought into port,especially Boston Harbor.Coffee was not so popular then and the tea tax put it out of the buying range of most colonists.Also,the colonists were tired of being taxed without being consulted.That is why we have no taxation without representation,although in many cases the taxes are passed anyway,despite verbal protest. -
Boston Tea Party
England taxed America. Americans thought it was unfair. Americans dressed up like Indians and dumped all of the tea from England into the harbor. England got pissed. War for Independence ensued. Fast forward, government is again levying oppressive and unfair taxes on the people. New tea party forms. New tea party is labeled racist by those who are dependent upon the government for their welfare checks. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts, called by the British the Coercive Acts or Punitive Acts, were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the growing unrest in thirteen American colonies, particularly in Boston, Massachusetts after incidents such as the Boston Tea Party. Enforcement of the Acts played a major role in the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War and the establishment of the First Continental Congress. -
Shot Heard Around the World
The "Shot heard around the world" is basically the gun shot that started the American Revolution or Revolutionary War. It was at the Battle of Lexington and Concord where someone fired a gun and then both sides open fired at each other. No one knows who fired that shot. This is also a phrase that means everyone around the world is affected. -
Common Sense
Paine created “Common Sense” as a call to arms to all colonists. It was basically a list of all the reason the Colonies should rebel and the wrongs the British had done. Paine wrote about taxation without representation and how only a continental government could rightly rule over the American Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence claimed God given rights.
Rights given by God to the American people that governments cannot take away. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, not everyone was free, but it was a document that would provide the hope that some day it would be better.
