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Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 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. -
Proclamation Line
Issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The first DIRECT TAX placed on colonists. It was placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War. -
Quatering Act
Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers. he act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Masscare
British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonists, killing 5 colonists. t was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. In Congress, future president John Adams vocally pushed for independence. -
Tea Act
Lowered the tax on British tea,making it cheaper than the non- British tea colonists smuggled. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1773, colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Colonists were mad and they felt forced to buy British tea. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
Considered by many the start of the American Revolution. British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons, and they run into an untrained and angry militia. -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Pain. Common Sense was influenced by the Enlightenment ideas on natural rights and compact theory. -
Townshend Acts
Series of acts taxed items like tea, paper, and glass. The British had warrants called " Writs of Assistance" to search colonists' preoperty for smuggled goods. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration Independence. Claiming that "all men are created equal" and had natural rights.
