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Proclamation Line
By King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America. -
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Road To Revolution
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Quartering Act
It required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Declaratory Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Stamp Act
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. -
Townshend Acts
Acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies. British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Committee of Correspondence
Rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
Tea Act
A bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British. -
Boston Tea Party
A law British passed, removing tax from British tea keeping tax on colonial tea. Colonists react violently to the situation. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
Hand drawn depiction of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The first shots were fired in Lexington, Massachusetts. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a book written by Thomas Paine. The 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
In June 1776, five men including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was to write a formal statement of the colonies’ intentions. The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence written by Jefferson.
