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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 the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
quartering act
The purpose of these laws was to take back hold of the thirteen colonies. Therefore, he asked Parliament to do something. Most colonies had supplied provisions during the war, but the issue was disputed in peacetime. The Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764 -
stamp act
all printed material must have a government stamp. -
Declaratory Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
the tea act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
The Boston Tea Party
the boston tea party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
Quartering Act
Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Committee of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 -
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 from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
declaration of independence
Adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain -
townshed act
Tax on imported goods like glass and tea.
