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The Road To Revolution
the British ignored the colonies and tension cooled substantially. However, -
Proclamation line
Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. -
Stamp act
Great Britian put taxes on all paper products. -
Quarting Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Townshed
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representati -
Boston massacre
british red coats shot into a unarmed crowed and kill 5 people. -
Committee of Corepondence
November 1772: Samuel Adams organized the first Committee of Correspondence at Boston, Massachusetts -
Boston Tea Party
when 5 colonist threw britsish tea of a english ship into the boston harbor. -
Tea Act
In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company. -
Intolarable act
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Shot Heard Around The World
the battle of lexgington and concord. there was a short fired and nobody know who was the frist to make a shot. -
Common Sense
a book written by thomas paine who incourge the colonist to break away from great britian.September 1774- Representatives from 12 colonies write a formal protest to King George III -
Declartory act
Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies -
Declaration Of Indepence
Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence
