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British policy established after the French and Indian War, which prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
British law passed to raise revenue from the American colonies by taxing imported sugar, molasses, and other goods. -
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies
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a series of British laws passed in 1767, named after the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townshend. -
British law designed to save the financially struggling British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen British colonies in America, held in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774. -
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
A governing body formed by delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that convened in Philadelphia in May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War. -
The basic, sound, and practical judgment that is believed to be shared by all people. -
The Declaration of Independence is a formal statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.