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21) Declaration of Independence
American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire (Declaration of Independence) -
1st Continental Congress
Boston Committee of Correspondence circulated letter urging the colonies to stop trading with England. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. -
Proclamation Act
The end of the French and Indian War, the British intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
The Sugar Act
Paying taxes (increased taxes on sugar) which impacted the manufacture in New England. -
The Stamp Act
new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
The Quartering Act
Quartering Act: the outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
Americans Colonies first Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765. in New York city.The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, They resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. -
Declaratory Act
British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Townshend Act
Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Committee of Correspondence
Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts: means American Patriots' a name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
Lexington & Concord
British soldiers quartered in Boston, capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock.But fail because of spies and friends of the Americans leaked word of Gage's plan. -
Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
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. to King George III, but then herefused to receive the petition. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.
