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Proclamation Line
Issued by King George III following great Britain's acquisition of french territory in north america. After the end of french & Indian war/ seven years war which forbid all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was the first internal tax levied directly on american colonists by British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The quartering acts states that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in in public houses and inns. -
Declaratory Act
The declaratory act was an act of the parliament of great Britain. This accompanied the repeal of the stamp act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act. -
Townshend act
The townshend act was a series of acts passed by the parliament of great Britain relating to the British colonies in north america. The acts are named after Charles townshend,the chancellor of the exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
Boston massacre was the killing of 5 colonists by British regulars. It was the peak of tensions in the american colonies that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts. -
Committee of correspondence
The committees of correspondence were the american colonies means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. The committees of correspondence rallied a colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the 13 colonies. -
Tea act
The tea ct was an act of the parliament of great Britain. the objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British east India company. -
Boston tea party
The Boston tea party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston. The sons of liberty led by Samuel Adams threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable or coercive acts
The intolerable acts were the america patriot's term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for throwing tea in the Boston harbor. -
"Shot heard around the world"
"The shot heard around the world" is a phrase from Ralph waldo Emerson's poem. The phrase explains when the first British soldiers killed in the battles of Lexington and concord fell. -
Common Sense
Common sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. This was the first book to openly ask for independence from great Britain. -
Declaration of independence
The declaration of independence is the statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting at Philadelphia Pennsylvania. This announced the thirteen colonies then at war with the kingdom of great Britain, considered themselves as 13 independent states.
