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treaty of paris
the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. -
Proclamation of 1763
The docmuent made sure that settlers didn't go pass the Appaclation Mountians. This made settlers mad. -
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Relvolution
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Stamp Act
exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Declaratory Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 -
Townshend Acts
a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America -
Boston Massacare
Colonists were being harassed by British troops and decidikng to throw rocks back. The troop open fire on the Colonists and killed 5 soldiers -
Tea Act
the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
2nd Continental Congress
managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Boston Tea party
Sons of Libertys boarded of tea ship and threw 342 crates of tea -
Intolerbale acts
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode to lexington to warn everyboy about the British troops are coming. -
Battle of Lexington adn Concord
The British Troops and Patriots fought in Lexington and Concord. This was know as the "Shot heard around the world".
