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Intolerable/Coercive Acts
England shut down Boston Harbor, stopped allowing elections and expanded the Quartering Act -
Proclamation Line
Banned all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Taxes on almost all printed material for everyone. -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers -
Declaratory Act
Declared England's authority to make laws for the coloinies -
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Townshend Acts
Taxes on items like tea, paper, and glass. -
Boston Massacre
Killing of 5 colonists by British soliders -
Committe of Correspondence
Railed colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the 13 colonies. -
Tea Act
Lowered the tax on British Tea, making it cheaper than the non- British tea colonist smuggled -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington. -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independece
Regarded the thirteen colonies independent states.
