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Proclamation Line
The 'No Trespassing' sign was known as the Proclamation Line. The Proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. -
Stamp Act
Parliament passes The Stamp Act as a mean to pay for British troops on the American frontier. Colonists violently protest the measure. -
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same in America as a guest in Britain. The Declaratory act was the response to the repeal of The Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Act was a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured on March 05, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing, snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. British troops in Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts, and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. -
Committee Of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence was the instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. They served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. On the night of December 6, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chest of tea overboard. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea. They boarded the British ship Dartmouth docked in Boston Harbor, dressed up as Native Americans, and dumped the entire load of tea into the water. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was two British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1765, and 1774 that were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the Thirteen Colonies of America. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
"Shot Heard Around World" was a phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the battle of Lexington and Concord. The first shot was fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts, the morning of 19th, "shot heard around world". -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a book written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Common Sense convinced a lot of Americans that the time had finally come to break away from the British rule. -
Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration Of Independence is an important document in the history of the United States, It was ratified on July 4, 1776. The main purpose of the Declaration Of Independence was to explain the foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from the Great Britain.
