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Proclomation Line
Issued by King George iii. Acquisiton of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian war . -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765 by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonist and required them to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quatering Act
This act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if their wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in pubic houses. -
Declatory Act
An act of the Parlament of Great Britain , which accompained the repeal of the Stamp Act -
Townshend Acts
Series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what is considered to be its historic right to exert authority. The acts are name after Charles Townshed -
Boston Massacre
A street fight occuried between a " patriot" mob throwing things at a swuad of British soilders. Several colonist were killed and it led to a campaign by speech-writers . -
Commeitiee of Correspondence
The Committiees of Correspondence were the American Colonies means for maintaing communication in the years before the Revolutonary War. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as the Destruction of the Tea in Boston" was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. -
" Shots heard around the world"
The British reached Lexington when shots fired and it was uncertain which side shot fire. Eight Americans were dead and a equal amount were injured -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine in 1775. Didn't become a published until February 14, 1776 -
Decloration Of Independence
John Adams believed this day would be " the most memorable epocha in the history of America". Wasnt signed until August 2, 1776
