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Proclamation Line
It forbid the American colonist to settle west of the Appalachian mountains, King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on all paper goods by British to help pay for the French and Indian War. It later repealed. -
Quartering Act
To provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Declaratory Act
commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. Violators were tried in admiralty courts where they were presumed guilty. -
Boston Massacre
Incident where 5 colonist were killed by British soldiers. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts -
Committee of Correspondence
Network of individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies , created the Boston Massacre. It rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies -
Tea Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
Son Of Liberty dumped British Tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament 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
Hand drawn depiction of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston, by J. DeCosta. The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress. Its a document of declarations the independence of the U.S from Britain.
