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The Intolerable Acts also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of 4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusets Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Navigation Acts were passed by the English parliament in 1651 to control government trade between England and their colonies. -
The End of Salutary Neglect ended when the British wanted to reinforce the Naigation Acts, and led to the American Revolution. -
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited American colonists from settling on lands owned by the French after the French and Indian War. -
The Sugar Act heavily enforced taxes on sugar and other products imported into the American colonies from Caribbean sources. -
The Sons of Liberty were groups of American colonists who disagreed with British rule of the 13 North American colonies. -
The Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament and required colonists to pay a tax, therefore represented by a stamp. -
The Townshend Act placed new responsibilities on imports on glass, lead, paper, tea to colonies from Great Britain. -
The Boston Massacre where British soldiers fired into a crowd of people, killing and wounding 11 in total, and was a turning point between British soldiers and American colonists. -
The Second Continental Congress were meetings of the delegates from the 13 Colonies that all supported the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. -
Committees of Correspondence was organized by Samuel Adams to keep colonists informed of Bristish anticolonial actions and to plan. -
The Boston Tea Party where colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor to protest against the tax on tea. -
The First Continental Congress declared the colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen. -
Patrick Henry's “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech is his argument that war with Britain was inevitable and a militia should be formed to defend liberties. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
The Olive Branch Petition was sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent war from being declared. -
Thomas Paine's “Common Sense” helped persuade the 13 Colonies toward independence. -
The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the United Stated, which declared seperation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.