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Proclamation Line
After winning French and Indian War, Britain wants peace in the colonies. Proclamation of 1763 bans colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War; later repealed. -
Quartering Act
On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. -
Declaratory Act
Stated Parliament had the right to tax the colonists at anytime. The Declaratory Act was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. -
Townshend Acts
Passed by Parliament in 1767, placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Incident where five colonist were killed by British Soldiers. Three people were killed and two people died later because of their wounds. -
Committees of Correspondence
Network of Individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies; created after Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
A law British passed, removing tax from British teak keeping tax on colonial tea. Colonists react violently to the situation. -
Intolerable Acts
Act where Boston is punished for their part in the Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston Harbor; closed their government offices and led to the First Continental Congress. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
British soldiers were sent to capture the militia's weapons. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Israel Bissell warned the colonists that, "The Redcoats are coming." British troops marched to Concord to capture colonial leaders and the ammunition and weapons that were stored there. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. The language that Paine used had spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Document that Declarations the independence of the United States from Great Britain; King George III ignores it.
