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Proclamation Line
The proclamation of 1763 was a law that forbade the colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains. The proclamation line was located along the Appalachian mountains. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act put taxes on any paper things like playing cards. All documents had to have a stamp to show the taxes were paid. The Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on american colonists by the British government -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was passed by the British Parliament. The Quartering Act was designed to control the colonists. -
Declaratory Act
This act declared Parliament's right to legislate for the colonies for whatever reason. The purpose of this act was to claim Parliament's control over all colonial incidents. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were passed to put taxes on variety of goods including glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint. Because of the Townshend Acts they boycotted many British goods such as jewelry, coaches, clothes, and watches. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British Soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Committee of Correspondence
Committees of Correspondence were created by the American Colonies for communication between colonies prior to the American Revolution. They helped coordinate plans of resistance against the British government. -
Tea Act
The price of tea is reduced by eliminating the american merchants from shipping tea to the colonies. Britain Parliament passed the Tea Act in order to save the East India Company from bankruptcy. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. The Boston Tea party was a protest by the American colonists against the British. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Shot Heard Around The World
The shot heard around the world was fired in Lexington. The shot heard around the world got its name because it had the first shot. -
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"Road to Revolution"
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense." It was the first published anonymously during the American Revolution. -
Decleration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was written to explain why the colonists were declaring independence from Great Britain and why the colonists had a right to do so.
