American Revolutionary Project

By jahepp2023

  • French and Indian War

  • Brief Sentence

    The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America

  • Proclamation of 1763

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    prohibited Anglo-American colonists from setting on lands acquired from the French

  • Sugar Act

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    British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar & molasses

  • Stamp Act

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    The act required the colonists to pay a tax

  • Quartering Act

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    stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in public houses

  • Townshend Act

  • Brief Sentence

    designed to raise revenue for the British Empire

  • Brief Sentence

    British guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians

  • Boston Massacare

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Brief Sentence

    Dumped 342 chests of British tea, to protest on taxes

  • Coercive Acts

  • Brief Sentence

    break Massachusetts Bay and warn the colonies about rebellious behavior

  • First Continental Congress

  • Brief Sentence

    Britain's 13 American colonies met to discuss America's future

  • Shot Heard Around the World

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    Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Brief Sentence

    18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution

  • Common Sense

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    Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Brief Sentence

    certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.