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Proclamation Line
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 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, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The 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. -
The Quartering Act
This is the act that gave the British Soldiers a right to live inside peoples houses without the colonists permission. Colonists also had to provide food for any soldiers in that area -
The Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a act passed the same day they repealed the stamp act. This act stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed that started in 1767. It was started by Charles Townshend. 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
The killing of 5 colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts. -
Committee of Correspondence
A railed opposition against the British and a established political union among the thirteen colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren. -
Tea Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Main 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
The Boston Tea Party happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea. -
Intolerable or Coercive Act
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. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
This is the shot that is known as the first shot that started the American Revolution. The phrase is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. This pamphlet was written to advocate our independence from Great Britain -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document that was written and adopted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states that North America sought independence in July of 1776 from the British.
