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Road to Revolution
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Proclamation Line
They mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their land. King George 3 following Great Britain's. -
Committee of Correspondence
It established a political union among the thirteen colonies. That writing to others colonies to encourage united opposition to Britain's recent stiffening of customs. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Acts was the first direct tax on the colonist. All American colonist and required them to pay a tax on every price. -
Quartering Act
To provide food and shelter to British soldiers.The act stated troops could only be quartered in barracks. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act was the act of parliament of Great Britain. That accompanied the repeal of the stamp act and changing lessening of the sugar Act. -
Declaration of Independence
It's a statement that's adopted by the second continental congress meeting. They announced the thirteen colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre is known for king Street by the British. That British Army solidiers killed 5 male civilians and injured six others. -
Townshend Act
Townshend Act were met with resistance in the colonies. As a result of widespread the protest in American colonies, Parliament began to repeal the Townshend duties. -
Tea Act
This Tea Act lowered on tax on British tea.The out come was that making it cheaper than the non-British tea colonists smuggled. -
Boston Tea Party
It was political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The colonist were mad and felt forced to buy British Tea -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
They shut down Boston harbor, stopped allowing the elections, and expanding the Quatering Act. They also were meant to punish the Americans colonist for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
The first shot was fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts. The shot hear is considered by many the start of the American Revolution
