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Proclamation Line
King George III ordered no more colonial settlement west of the App Mountains, Colonists instead ignored the law and moved west anyway making the King angry. -
Stamp Act (1765)
This was the first Direct Tax on the colonists. Almost all printed materials were taxed, including newspapers, posters, deeds, and even playing cards. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was forced on the colonists to give the British soldiers shelter basically, but when the colonists started acting up they sent more to control them. -
Declaratory Act
This Law basically declared England's Authority to makes any law for the Colonies. This was the beginning of the mistreatment. -
Townshend Acts
The British started to tax the Colonists for items like Tea, Paper, and Glass. This made the Colonists angry because these were important items. -
Boston Massacre
During all of the Acts the British was forcing, the sent 1,000 troops to keep order in Boston. British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonists killing 5 colonists. -
Committee of Correspondence
Committees of correspondence was when colonies set up groups to communicate about British activities. They unified everybody, shaped the public opinion,and coordinated resisting the British -
Tea Act
The British lowered the tax on British tea, making it cheaper than the non-British tea colonists smuggled. This lead to the Boston Tea Party because the colonists felt like they were forced to buy the tea -
Boston Tea Party
In 1773, colonists,disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Act
Act where Boston is punished for their part in the Boston Tea Party. British Closed the Boston Harbor, their government offices and this led to the First Continental Congress. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The "Shot Heard Around the World" is considered to be the Spark that causes the American Revolution and was the best for the Colonists. -
Common Sense
Wrote by Thomas Paine made the Idea of independence popular. Paine's idea of government, where power comes from the people through elections, not a king. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. This announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states.
