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Proclamation Line
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 -
Sugar Act
a tax passed by the British to pay for the Seven Years War, called the French and Indian War in America. It taxed sugar and decreased taxes on molasses in British colonies in America and the West Indies. -
Stamp Act
a law that was passed by the British to tax American on every piece of printed paper they used, newspaper, paper for writing letters, even to play cards. -
Quartering Act
A law passed by the British to forcefully provide housing to British soldiers in American households. a lot of Americans did not like this, but they could not go against the law. -
Townshend Act
Originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They 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, who were quartered in the city, fired their guns UNORDERED into a rioting mob killing five American civilians in the Boston Massacre. -
Committee of Correspondence
rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society. -
Tea Act
British Law that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists did not want to pay taxes on British tea, so they rebelled and disguised themselves as Indians and dumped all the tea into the sea. -
Intolerable Or Coercive Acts
Laws that were passed by the British, specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Part. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
it was the Battles of Lexington and Concord, between the red coats, and the Americans. while they are in the battle field a gun is fired. till this day no one knows who fired first. -
Common Sence
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine talking about having independence from Great Britain to people from the Thirteen Colonies. this was a major turning point, this put the idea in Americans heads to wanting to be independent. -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776
