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road to revolution
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Proclamation line of 1763
On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.He hoped to placate native americans who sided against him in the 7 years war. -
stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
quartering act
required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops. It let troops stay in the homes with anyone. -
Declaratory acts
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend acts
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America. They got most revenue from glasss, tea, paint, lead, paper. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
committee of correspondence
In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
tea act
The tea act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable acts or coercive acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Shot heard around the world
The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was the day America's War for Independence began -
common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence -
Declaration of independence
which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
