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Proclamation line
Issued by King George III, the proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act asso known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament.Taxes from the earlier Molasses Act of 1733 had never been effectively collected, largely due to colonial evasion as the molasses trade grew. -
Quartering Act
Act that states that the colonists are required to house British soliders in barracks provied by the colonies.If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War -
Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend. The Townshend Act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Incident between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.5 colonists were killed by the British soliders. -
Tea Act
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. -
Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable/Coercive Act
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the Brittish Parliament that accompined the repeal of the Stamp Act.It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britian.Parliament had directly taxed the colonists for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. -
Declaration of Independence
Document that was written that stated that the 13 American colonies declared independence of the United States from Great Britian.
