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King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War.
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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one of a series of measures primarily aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America
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stated parliament had the right to tax the colonist at anytime
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passed by parliament in 1767,placed taxes on imported material such as glass, lea, paint, paper and tea
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the boston massacre was the killing of five colonist by british soldiers
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The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren
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this act is the catalyst of the Boston tea party , The Tea act was passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, that granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American Colonies
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american colonist dressed as native americans throwing 342 trunks of cargo that was on the british tea ship into boston harbor
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punishment for the destruction wrought during the boston tea party a violent reaction to the british tea tax of 1773
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British troops searching for ammunition stockpiles in Concord encountered the local minutemen. The battle came to be known as the Battle of Concord.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies
