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This document was sent to the colonist by the king and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian mountains
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a trade law enacted by parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in British in north America
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a minimum of two acts of British parliament in the local government to American colonies to provide
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
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Asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies
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A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies
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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots.
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The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War
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harsh laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 they were meant to punish the American colonists for the boston tea party
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War
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The British defeated the Americans although the Americans a huge part of the British forces
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managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence
