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road to revolution
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proclamation line
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp act
British parliament passed the stamp act, All American colonists were affected & required to pay taxes on everything. -
quartering act
Local Governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area -
townshend act
imposed duties on glass, paper, paint, and tea on colonies -
boston massacre
March 5th British soldiers in Boston began shooting & killed 5 men out of a group of American colonists. -
tea act
Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London. -
committee of correspondence
Colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
Boston tea act
There was a direct protest in Boston by colonists for the tax on tea. They went into the ship and told the tea & dumped it into the Boston harbor. -
intolerable act
Were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests -
shot heard around the world
The first shot of the American Revolutionary War -
common sense act
Challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain -
declaratory act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
declaration of independence
statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves
