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1766 BCE
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Proclamation Line
As it is known, acknowledged that Indians owned the lands on which they were then residing and white settlers in the area were to be removed. -
The Stamp Act
This act was the first Direct tax on the colonists not just merchants.
Almost all printed materials were taxed, including newspaper, posters, deeds, and even playing cards -
Quartering Act
Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment.
Needs for the soldiers were bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, beer or cider and candles. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend acts were a series of acts passed by the parliament of great britain . -
Boston Massacre
Incident where 5 colonist were killed by British soldiers.
The colonist had no type of guns. -
Committee of Correspondence
Were provisional Patriot emergency governments established in response to British policy on the eve of the American Revolution throughout the Thirteen Colonies. -
Tea Act
An act established British Parliament that stated that the East Indian Company would have to cruise directly to the American colonies to export their tea instead of going first to Britain and then export it again to the same colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Harbor a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain. -
Shot heard around the world
The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the "Shot Heard Round the World." -
Declaration of independence
The Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.
