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Proclamation Line
The acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. Seven Year's war which forbade all settlement past line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War. -
Quartering Act
The required colonists to house the British army if they came by. -
Declartory Act
Declaration by the British parliament that accompanied the repeal of the stamp act. -
Townshend Acts
Placed taxes on imported materials ( glass, lead, and paper) -
Boston Massacre
Five colonist were killed by the British because they were protesting . The colonist were unarmed but the British still shot at them. -
Committees of Correspondence
Network of Individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies. -
Tea Act
The colonist dumped all of Great Britain's Tea into the Boston harbor. They were fed up with Great Britain so they decide to teach them a lesson . -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty dumped large amounts of British Tea into the Boston harbor. They were trying to prove a point and to show them how much they wanted there attention to listen. -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Shot Heard Around the World
The battle at Lexington where the British went us against the colonist and a first shot was heard that started the road to the Independence of the United states. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote the book Common Sense. He wrote it for Independence explain it to the thirteen colony's. -
Declaration of Independence
The declarations the independence of the United States from Great Britain.
