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Before the American Revolution

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    The British were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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    Before the American Revolution

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    It was a law passed by Great Britain's Parliament imposing taxes on molasses, sugars, and other goods of a sort imported by the colonies.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    It was a law enacted by Parliament that required colonists to provide shelter and necessities for British troops.
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    It was delegates from nine colonies who met in New York City to discuss the unfairness of the Stamp Act and to argue Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    It was a law passed by the British Parliament that placed a tax on printed matter such as newspapers and playing cards.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    It was a law passed by British Parliament that inforced its right to make laws for the American colonies.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    It was a law passed by British Parliament putting chores on specific items imported by the colonists.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The event was an incident where British soldiers fired arms into a group of gathered colonists and killed multiple people.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    It was a law passed by the British Parliament that allowed the British East India Company to not pay for certain duties and it allowed them to sell tea directly to American agents. This all resulted in a fall in colonial tea prices.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    It was a protest against the Tea Act where some colonists secretly boarded British tea ships and poured hundreds of tea chests into the boston harbor.
  • Coercive Acts

    Coercive Acts

    Also known as the Intolerable Acts to colonists, these four laws were passed by British Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to gaina firmer grip on the colonies.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    The act moved Quebec's boundary to the Ohio River and gave religious freedom to French Roman Catholics.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    It was a meeting of colonial delegates that discussed their complaints against British Parliament.
  • Battles of Lexington/Concord

    Battles of Lexington/Concord

    The battle was the first combat in the Revolutionary War.
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    It was the second meeting of the colonists in Philadelphia discussing the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    It was a rejected peace request sent by the 2nd Continental Congress to King George III.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The writing stated that the 2nd Continental Congress officially declared the new United States of America to be free of Great Britain.