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A British-issued boundary that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Passed by the British Parliament on April 5, 1764, and took effect -
The British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
A series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies -
Designed to bail out the struggling East India Company by giving it a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 -
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen British American colonies held in Philadelphia in 1774 -
Independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
The famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence -
A gathering of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that convened in Philadelphia -
A document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced the thirteen American colonies were independent of British rule. It proclaimed that these colonies were now free and independent states.