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separated colonial settlers from Indians
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an act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by having a stamp duty on newspapers and legal documents.
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act
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the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas.
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were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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British soldiers shot and killed five colonists.
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The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party.
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a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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the American Patriots' term for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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a meeting of delegates that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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"the british are coming" was said by revere,cheswell,and dawes.
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence
