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Proclamation Line
Proclamation was issued by King George III, Great Britain acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven years War, forbade all settlement past a line dawn along the Appalachian Mountians. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. The act which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at the time when the British Empire was deep on dept from the seven years of war. -
Quartering Act
Name given to a minimum of two acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the american colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations. Quartering was one of these new measures and was passed. -
Declaratory Act
Act of Parliament of Great Britain accompanied the repeal of the stamp act 1765 and changing and lessening of the sugar act. boycotts were hurting the British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. -
Townshed Acts
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonist in American by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. The Act was named after Charles townshed the Chancellor Of The Exchequer. -
Boston Massacure
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Committee Of Correspondence
Provisional Patriot emergency governments established in response to British policy on the eve of the American Revolution throughout the thirteen colonists. The most influential Committees of Correspondence on the eve of the American Revolution were located in the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. -
Tea Act
The Act of Parliament of Great Britian. 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. -
Boston Tea Party
protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
Men disguised as Mohawks threw tea into the harbor to protest the tax on tea. -
Intolerable Acts
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. -
Shot Heard Around The World
The Shot Heard Around The World is what started Revolutionary War. Nobody till this day know who fired first the colonist say the British did, the British said the colonist did. -
Common Sense
Hope of convincing public for a swift change in government revolution so they indepdence self rule. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. Instead they formed a new nation the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was passed on July 2 with no opposing vote cast.
