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French and Indian war
also known as the seven year war between great Britain and France. -
the proclamation of 1763
this proclamation issued on October 7, 1763 forced the colonist to stay behind the appellation mountains. -
sugar act
also known as the American Revenue Act of 1764 put tax on imported goods -
stamp act
passed by British parliament this act imposed tax on every paper document. -
quartering act
parliament passed this act to outline the locations and conditions in which British soldiers would inhabit. -
Townshend act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament to imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston massacre
British soldiers, who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians in the Boston "Massacre". -
The Committees of Correspondence
British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren. British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
tea act
was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston tea party
a raid on three British ships in Boston harbors in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea. -
The Intolerable Acts
also called the Coercive Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
First Continental Congress
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. -
Lexington and Concord
First Revolutionary Battle of the american revolution. -
common sense
Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
written to adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence; The King interfered with the colonists' right to self-government and for a fair judicial system.