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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed to punish the people in Massachusetts for their doings in the Boston Tea Party. -
Continental Congress
The Congress met at Carpenters Hall in Philidelphia from September 5th to October 26th to discus issues and topics. They were the first Congress to have the Congress meerting. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the articles of peace that were passed by congess, that brought the revolutionary war to an end. -
Proclamtion Act
King Gorge made a law sawing that no one could move past the Appalachian Mountains due to the new frech terriotory. No one followed this rule. -
The Sugar Act
Parliment passed a law that you had to pay tax on Sugar. They chose to make this law becuase of how many people used and needed sugar they say a way to make money. It didn't end up working because people boycotted sugar and found substitutes for it. -
Quartering Act
The quarterinh act was a law that was passed that stated that all colonist's had to let any soldier live in their household and they must supply them with a place to live, food to eat and the neccesites to live. Many colonist were outraged with this law. -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed by the british parliment to all americans that you had to pay taxes on any paper product. From ships papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards. -
Decleration of Rights and Grievances
The Decleration of RIghts and Grievances was issued by the Stamp Act that was passed in New York CIty in October of 1765. It was the beggining of the law that would soon be passed of no taxation without reprisentation. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held in New York City of representatives from all over to discuss the issue of taxes and how against they are. Also to figure out a plan against them. -
Common Sense
The Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1765-1766 that inspried people in the thirteenth colonies to fight for their independance from great britan in thes summer of 1766. -
Stamp Act repealed
This was the day that Parliment repeiled the taxation. A very happy day for the colonist's. -
Lexington & Concord
The battles of Lexington & Concord were the first military engagments of the American Revolutionary war. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was the act where the congress lifted the taxes on sugar and the repral of the stamp act. -
Townshend Act
The townshend act was a series of acts passed in 1767 by the parliment in great britan. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob and british soliders. -
Committie of Corrispondants
Committies of Corrispondants were government like organizations organized by partriotic leaders. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was yet another law passed that put taxes on tea. Parliment thought this would work great, but soon found out everyone was boycotting it. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was when the colonists in Massachusets decided to go aboard a ship and dumb all the tea off of it into the bay, because they were boycotting the tea since it was being taxed. -
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill was a hill that a battle was faught on in the early stages of revolutionary war. -
Appeal to reason Rejected
This event was also known as the Olive Branch Petition. This petition showed american loyalty to the great britan king. To also avoid any more wars. -
Declaration Of Independance
The decleration of independance is the statement and document that stated that the 13 colonies in america were now independant states and no longer apart of great britan.
