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Proclamation Line
King George III following Great Britain 's acquisition of french territory in North America -
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
Taxed placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the french and Indian War ; later repealed -
Quartering Act
Two acts of British parliament in the local governments of the american colonies to provide the British soldiers -
Declaratory Act
Stated parliament had the right to tax the colonists at any time -
Townshend Act
Passed by the parliament in 1767,placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
When British soldiers opened fire on a group of american colonists killing five men -
Boston Massacre
Known as the incident on King Street by the british army soldiers shot and killed people while under attacked by a mob -
Committee of correspondence
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, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society. -
Tea Act
The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London -
Boston Tea Party
They destroyed and entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts (known in America as the Intolerable Acts) were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, which was a reaction to the British tea tax of 1773. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
This phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "concord Hymn and is referred to the first shot in the American Revolutionary war -
Common Sense
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
Document that declaration the independence of the united from Great Britain ; written by Thomas Jefferson
