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Stamp Act
Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. -
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US History Timeline
US History acts, to the signing of the Delaration of Independence. -
Sugar Act
Law placing a tax on sugar, and molasses, (etc.), shipped to the colonies. -
Quartering Act
Act requiring the colonists to quater, or house, British soilders and provide them with supplies. -
Stamp Act Congess
Meeting held in NYC, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. -
Declaratory Act
Stated that Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonists and the right to make laws for the colonies. -
Townshed Acts
Taxed lead, glass, paper, and paint - in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Street fight between a "patriot" mob, and British soilders. -
Tea Act
Passed to help British merchants. (lowered price, but still had a tax) (lead to Boston Tea party) - tax on tea -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty. They threw thousand of crates of tea into the harbor. (Boston harbor) (British then shut the Boston harbor down) -
Intolerable Acts
Forced colonists to form the 1st Continental Congress. (Punishment for the Boston Tea party) -
First Continental Congress
(to October 26) - A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies held in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). (early American Revolution) -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
First battle of the Revolutionary War. British soldiers and troops had moved from Boston, towards Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists’ military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen, and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord and Lexington Road. (Paul Revere comes in) -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). (soon after warefare, the American Revolutionary War began) (had begun) -
Declaration of Independence (signing)
Fundamental document establishing the US as a nation. (approved by Continental Congress) (written mostly by Thomas Jeffreson)
