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1. Treaty of Paris
Document signed by representatives of United States of America and Great Britain officially ending the Revolutionary War. -
2. Proclamation Act
Document declaring all settlement to be located past the Appalacian Mountains. -
3. Sugar Act
Document stating you must pay taxes on sugar imports. It was a modification of the Sugar and Molasses Act. -
The Stamp Act of Congress
It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Stamp Act
An act of british parliment that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
The Quartering Acts
An act that required the colonies to house british soliders in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievance
It is the opening paragraphs of the declaration of independence. -
The Stamp Act Repealed
It is a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
Declaratory Act
It is the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between the "patriots" in boston and the british soliders that resulted in the deaths of five civilians. -
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. -
Tea Act
An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America. -
Boston Tea Party
A protest against taxes in which they dumped out a million dollars worth of tea. -
1st Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. -
Lexington and Concord
A war that started the American revolutionary war. -
Bunker Hill
A brawl between the british and the colonies. The british won. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
Richard Penn and Arthur Lee, representing the Continental Congress, present the so-called Olive Branch Petition to the Earl of Dartmouth.Britain’s King George III, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written by John Dickinson, appealed directly to the king and expressed hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain. -
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. -
Declaration of Independence
The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation.
