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Proclamation Line
Issued by King George 111 a line was drawn along the Appalachian Mountains to divide territory between French and British. -
Stamp Act
Direct Tax on paper in the colonies just to make $$ -
Quartering Act
Coloniest had to house and feed British troops. -
Declaratory Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain and it accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
direct tax on paint, glass, paper, paint, and TEA. -
Boston Massacre
A mob surrounds a group of 9 British soldiers. Snowballs and insults are hurled leading firing from the british in result of 5 coloniest dead. -
Committee of correspondence
A shadow government organized by the Patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies. -
Tea Act
British passed a law removing tax on British Tea and keep tax on colonial tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Dressed as indians colonist board an English ship in Boston Harbor and dumped 18,000 pounds of English tea into the water. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Result from the Boston Tea Party. King Geroge 111 closed the Boston Harbor. Invoke martial law in Boston. -
"Shot heard around the World"
when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to fight for Independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
It was a document to declare independence from Great Britain.