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Proclamation Line
King George iii ordered no more colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
was the first DIRECT TAX on colonists. -
Quartering Act
Were two British laws that colonists were required to provide food and shelter to British soldiers. -
Townshend Acts
This series of acts taxed items like tea, paper, and glass. The townshend acts were named after a man named Charles Townshend, the chancellor of the Exchequer. -
Boston Massacre
British Soldiers fired on a heckling crowd or colonists, killing 5 people. -
Committee of Correspondence
A committee that was organized in 1773 by a man name Samuel Adams in Massachusetts to keep the colonists informed of the British antisocial actions -
Tea Act
A British law that was passed by the Parliment. It was made to bail the British East India Company and to expand the company's monopoly on tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was a raid on the British ships. Colonists disguised as Indians threw several hundred chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
The intolerable Acts were basically passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
A phrase from a poem that refers to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet that was written by a Journalist/Inventor Thomas Paine. It was to challenge the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
Declaratory Act
to save face, this law declared England's authority to makes laws for the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of Independence is apart of the American democracy and it carries our nations goals or ideas.
