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Proclamation Line
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British King George III.The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was perceived as being beneficial to the Native American Indians and Great Britain but as detrimental to the colonists. -
Stamp Act
American colonies under their own chapters of the Sons of Liberty had more than half a year to voice their opinion to the motherland during which riots and protests occurred in what is known as the Stamp Act Crisis. -
Quartering Act
On May 15, 1765 the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act where several rules also regulations was created so that British soldiers who remained in North America would be given a room and board. It was expected that colonial families complete with wives and children, make room in their homes for British soldiers if and when it was necessary. -
Declaratory Act
The Irish Declaratory Act, and the Parliament wants America, like the Irish, in continuous bondage to the crown. Outcries and outrage followed suit. Colonists called it many things some of which included “crisis” and “treason.” -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts was one of a series of taxes that divided Great Britain and its colonies in America. Unlike the Stamp Act of 1765, the laws were not a direct tax, but a tax on imports. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1764, Boston formed the earliest Committee of Correspondence to encourage opposition to Britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of American paper money. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16th, 1773. It was a protest by the American Colonists against the British in regards to the tea taxes that had been imposed on them. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. The Intolerable Acts represented an attempt to reimpose strict British control over the American colonies, but, after 10 years of vacillation, the decision to be firm had come too late. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
he first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the "Shot Heard Round the World." The colonial militia, a band of 500 men, were outnumbered and initially forced to retreat. The British army was able to press forward to Concord, where they searched for the supplies, only to come up empty handed. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence says that the authority to government belongs to the people, rather than to kings, that all people are created equal and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
