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Road to Revolution
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Proclamation Line
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. This affected all the Royal Colonies. -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War; later repealed.
Tax was imposed on all american colonists who had paper goods. -
Quartering Act
The act stated that only that troops could only be quartered in barracks if there wasn't enough space in barracks they had to stay in people's houses. -
Declaratory Act
stated parliament had the right to tax any colonists at any time.
Accompanied the Stamp act and the changing and lessening of the sugar act. -
Townshend acts
Series of four acts to help assert historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a assembly.
Placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
incident where five colonists were killed by British Soldiers. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since the royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768. -
Committee of Correspondence
the network of individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies. This was created after the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
this act was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India company in its London Warehouses and to help the struggling company to survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The political protest by the sons of liberty on December 16th 1773. -
Intolerable or coercive acts
Punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. These laws were mean't to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their part in dumping the big shipments of tea in the water or the harbor. -
"shot heard around the world"
The first actual shots fired after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th. Happened at the first revolutionary battle of Lexington and Concord. -
Common Sense
written by Thomas Paine to advocate the thirteen colonies about independence. -
Declaration of Independence
Document that declares the independence of the United States from Great Britain. Written by Thomas Jefferson. John Adams believed this date was the most memorable opacha in the history of America
