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Proclamation of 1763
issued by king George III following Great Britain's aquisition of French territory after the Seven Years War -
Stamp Act
direct tax from the British government to the colonies -
Stamp Act Congress
had representatives form colonies -
Townshend Acts
A series of laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain -
Bostson Massacre
british redcoaats killed five civillians -
Tea Act
Its objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies in preference to that of the British East India Company, and thereby convince the colonists to accept Parliament's right of taxation -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Indians boarded tea ships anchored in the harbour and dumped their tea cargo overboard -
Sugar Act
t is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... and ... it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised ... for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same -
First Continental Congress
a convention with twelve of the thirteen colonies present -
Intolerable Acts
relating to the british treatement of the colonies in america -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Declatory Act
teh British wre repealing the stamp act because of the hurtful boycotts
