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Road to Revolution
Started in 1763 ended in 1776 -
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
an act that gave America alot of taxes and caused them to work harder. Later it had got repealed in 1766 -
Quartering Act
is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 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. -
Declaratory Act
repeal of the stamp act. The British Parliaments taxing authority was the same in Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
were a series of acts that taxed things like tea, paper, and glass -
Boston Massacre
was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Committee of Correspondence
rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society. -
Tea Act
The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
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
And fired the shot heard round the world. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independence is when the Great Britain had placed taxes on the 13 colonies. And the Declaration of Independence was the separation of taxes in the 13 colonies.
