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Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France. France gave up its territories in North America, ending foreign military threat to the British colonies. -
Proclamation Act
Forbid settlement past the Appalachian Mountain -
Sugar Act
Lowered tax on foreign-produced molasses in attempts to discourage smuggling -
Quartering Act
Required colonies to house British soldiers -
Stamp Act
Required Americans to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Stamp Act Congress
Delegates from nine of the American colonies devise a unified protest against new British taxation -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent. -
Declaratory Act
Asserting that the British government had total power over the colonies -
Stamp Act Repealed
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act -
Townshend Act
Imposed tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men -
Committee of Correspondence
Rallied colonists against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies -
Tea Act
Designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguise as Indians, emptied 342 chests of tea into the harbor of Boston -
Intolerable Act
Punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies met to organize colonial resistance -
Lexington and Conrad
British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This army defeats 700 British soldiers -
Bunker Hill
British defeated the Americans. Despite their loss, it provided them with a confidence boost -
Common Sense
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain -
Olive Branch Petition
Attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. -
Declaration of Independence
America declaring independence from the ruling of Great Britain. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.