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Proclamation Line
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, 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 -
Quartering Act
British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. I -
Stamp Act
he new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, -
Boston Massacre
he killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts i -
Committee of Correspondence
he Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. The committee was used to notify the actions of resisting the stamp act -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea. the american dumped tea into the harbor. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. by dumping tea into the harbor -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The 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. it was meant to punish the colonist for dumping teat into the harbor. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
July 29, 1775. The first shots were fired just after dawn hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen -
Common Sense
challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
n fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776.
