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Proclamation Line
The treaty of Paris of 1763 that ended the seven years' war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains. Under the treaty Canada and the United States east of the Mississippi came under British control. -
Quartering Act
This act required colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declaratory act
The Declaratory Act was a British parliament that repeal of the stamp act. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue of the sugar act and the stamp act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act meant that the British did direct tax on paint, glass, paper, and tea. Colonists were angered at this act. The Boston merchants boycotted English goods. -
Committee of Correspondence
The way American Colonies maintained communication lines in before the Revolutionary war. The first of these provincial governments was formed in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament was utterly fed up with colonial antics. The British could tolerate strongly worded letters or trade boycotts. They could put up with defiant legislatures and harassed customs officials to an extent. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
British reached Lexington, where there were about 70 minutemen gathered on the village green, suddenly a shot was fired, when the short clash had ended there were eight Americans laying dead with an equal amount injured. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in January 1776, but it was not published as a pamphlet until February 14, 1776. He wanted people to think about what was happening. He explained that the people must fight against the unfair and unjust ways of King George III and the British Parliament. -
Stamp Act
An act which imposed tax on all paper documents. It came in a time when the British empire was deep in dept from the seven year war, and looking to its North American Colonies as a revenue source. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of independence is the statement adopted by the continental congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign state, and no longer part of the British. -
Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed by British Regulars on March 5, 1770. Along the five men was Crispus Attucks a man of black or Indian parents. -
tea act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War
