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Proclamation Act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
Had to pay tax on every gallon of molasses imported. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
The Quartering Act
This act gave the power to let British solder's to any accommodations and housing. It also required that the home owner had to feed the solder's as well. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
These right's declared that taxing without formal consent was unconstitutional and illegal. -
Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act congress was where the delegates would meet to protest certain laws or acts. -
Stamp Act Repealed
4 months after it was created it was repealed due to the widespread protests of American's -
Declaratory act
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshed acts were made to raise revenue for people who supported England that lived in the US. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies -
Tea Act
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773 -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts were the power to keep Boston under control by sending a military to keep them from town meetings without approval. -
1st Continental Congress
The 1st Continental Congress was a "retaliation to the intolerable acts." It was a meeting that the delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies to resist the English. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. On that night hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a fight that the Colonials lost but caused many casualties for the British which also rose their moral. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was the first document to ask for independence and was very popular among colonists. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document that declared that the United States of America was it's own country. -
Treaty of Paris
Negotiation between the United States and Great Britain, that ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
