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  • Proclamation Act

    Proclamation Act

    George III stated none can settle west of the appalachin mountains.
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    Cause of Revolutionary War

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The first attempt to finance and defense of the colonies, led to widespread protests.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies. A levy was placed.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to british garrisons.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Parliment finalizes the repeal of the stamp act.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Taxes on tea and paper.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    5 civilians were killed.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Sold the tea directly to the colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Act of defiance towards the british goverment by the american colonists.
  • Coercive Act

    Coercive Act

    A series of british measures passed in 1774 and desighned to punish the massachusettes colonists for the boston tea party.
  • First Continental Congress Meeting

    First Continental Congress Meeting

    Colonial delegates meet to organizes opposition to the intolerable act.
  • Declaration Of Rights And Grivences

    Declaration Of Rights And Grivences

    A document written by the stamp act congress and passed on Oct 19, 1765 it declared that taxes imposed on british colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.