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Was a British proclamation that forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachin Mountains
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Treaty that ended the war between France and Britain. Other wise known as the seven year war.
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Law Palcing tax on sugar, mollasses, and other products needed by colonists.
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Required commercial items to have a stamp proving paymant.
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Was an act passed by parliment to tax all of the colonists imports.
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Incident which the british troops fired on and killed american colonists becase we werew rebelling against taxation
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Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents occurred in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies.
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Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company.
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Two groups of people from all over the 13 Colonies who came together to discuss liberty.
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Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
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Two-day engagement between British forces under the command of General William Howe and American forces under Colonel William Prescott.
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irst shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775
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The Second Continental Congress met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started.
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Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain. Written by Thomas Jefferson and declared in effect by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
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The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This historic document said that the American colonies were independent from Great Britain.
