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Proclamation Line
The Proclamation act was the introduction of massive boundary to separate white settlements from Indian country. -
Stamp Act
Taxes were imposed on paper, newspapers, & even pamphlets. This act was passed by the British Parliament, for any kind of paper you needed you had to pay taxes for it.
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Quartering act
The first of series of laws requiring the provision of housing, food, and drink to British troops in American colonies.
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Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act was passed asserting the British right to make laws binding on the colonies.
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Townshend Acts
Series of laws placing duties on item's that were imported by the colonist. (glass, lead, paints, paper & tea.)
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was all started by the death of 5 civilians by British soldiers. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence were the American Colonies means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
Law allowing the British east India company to sell it's low cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was mainly all about not wanting to pay taxes for British tea. Some even dressed as Mohawk indians to make them look bad and they dumped all the tea out destroying all tea that was on the ship's. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable act was a reprisal to the Boston Tea party rebellion. A package of five laws aimed at restoring British authority in it's colonies. -
Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was presented by Thomas Jefferson. It was a statement that announced that the thirteen colonies were going to become independent sovereign states from Great Britain.
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"Shot Heard Around The World"
The start of the American Revolution, a shot was fired but no one was sure which side shot first.
