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Events Leading to the American Revolution-HBeasley

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  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763

    A boundary drawn across the Appalachian mountains that separated the natives and colonists.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    British law that taxed sugar, molasses and other goods imported into the American colonies

  • Townshend Acts

    Placed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies including tea, glass, paper, and paint
  • The tea act

    The tea act

    to save the struggling British East India Company and to prove British authority to tax the colonists.
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party. Designed to punish Massachusetts for the protest and to reassert British authority.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies to talk about the intolerable acts and resulted in Declaration of Rights and Grievances, an agreement to boycott British goods and a plan to meet again if necessary.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Wrote by Thomas Paine
    Talked about independence and why they should be free from Brittan.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The document Thomas Jefferson wrote to formally separate the Americas from British rule.