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Proclamation Line
The Proclamation Line between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast of America and American Indian lands called the Indian Reserve ran west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Hudson Bay to Florida. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. 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 money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
Quartering Act
The 1765 Quartering Act made provisions for British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists. The 1774 Quartering Act was one of the series of Intolerable Acts passed as a reprisal to the Boston Tea Party. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British Law, passed in mid March by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and their political victory but the the passing of the Declaratory Act was the beginning of more trouble. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts was the series of act taxed items like tea, paper, and glass. Writs of Assistance general warrants to search colonists property for smuggled goods. Violators were tried in admiralty courts where they were presumed guilty. -
Boston Massacre
The Sons of Liberty and patriots such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere used the Boston Massacre as a calculated piece of political propaganda, designed to rouse antagonism in all of the colonies toward the Crown. The events of the Boston Massacre were widely publicized, it contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in America and played a major part in the events that led to the American Revolution including the 1773 Tea Act which led to the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1774. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were highly influential and directly led to the outbreak of the American Revolution.The Committee of Correspondence were replaced during the revolution with Provincial Congresses, but they still continued to function at the local town level. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773, that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”, yet the cause is more complex than that. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War. Additionally, colonists believed Parliament did not have the right to tax them because the American colonies were not represented in Parliament. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston so tightly that the colonists could not bring hay from Charleston to give to their starving horses. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The Shot Heard Round the World occurred during a brief battle between British troops and local minutemen at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. -
Common Sense
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues for American independence. His argument begins with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation. -
declaration of independence
Document that declarations the independence of the United States from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson was the Author of this document
