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Proclamation Line
The Proclamation line was issued by King George III after the French and Indian War ended, the line prevented the colonies to move across the Appalachian Mountains -
Stamp Act
The first internal tax put upon American colonists which was put on all paper goods such as documents etc. The British used it to pay off debt from the Seven Years War, the colonists thought of it as unconstitutional and the colonists rebelled and caused mobs which led to the Act being repealed. -
Quartering Act
An act passed by the British to force local colonial governments to provide accommodations and food for the British sent troops into every individual colony -
Declaratory Act
It gave the British rights to tax the colonists at any given time, which was also accompanied by the Stamp Act, this was later repealed with the Stamp Act because colonists didn't believe it was fair and unconstitutional -
Townshend Acts
An early beginning on the British Parliament, placed down by Chancellor of Exchequer Charles, it imposed taxes on common things that colonists used in their daily lives such as glass, lead, paper & etc. -
Committee of Corespondence
This document formed on the eve of the American Revolution, a political union among the Thirteen colonies , to make an opposition against the British, it also served as a form of communication between the Patriot leaders in the colonies -
Tea Act
An act placed upon the colonists by the British and impose them to pay off their heavy debts in the wars they fought, colonists were not happy with this and tried to bail the East India Company and also boarded their ships and dumped the tea overboard -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists were dressed as Indians and went to the Boston Harbor to dump chests full of tea to create their protest against the British Parliament for the Tea Act they created to pay extra tax on the tea the British produced -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
A series of laws the British passed on, they forcefully shut down any form of trade until all the dumped tea was compensated the act was meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their actions upon dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
It was the first shot fired in the battle of Lexington, where colonists were rebelling against British troops, this marked a beginning for the colonists to earn their rights and freedom and ignited the American Revolution -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine supporting that the colonists should gain their own independence from Great Britain and also achieve their own egalitarian government, Common Sense also Inspired Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
A 2nd Continental Congress meeting which was held in Pennsylvania state, where 56 delegates such as Thomas Jefferson & John Hancock signed a document stating that the Thirteen Colonies will no longer be under British rule and form their own nation known as the United States of America.
