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proclamation of 1763
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Declatory Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight between patroits and briish soldiers that killed 5 people. -
Tea Act
was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party -
1st Continental Congress
s was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nt Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775 -
Treaty of Paris
signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America and ended the revalutionary war.
