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Townshend Acts
for sending a circular letter to other colonies explaining the common plight, and British troops sent to enforce these laws and keep peace were involved in unpleasant incidents -
Declaratory Act
The declaration stated that there Parliament's authority was the same in America as it was in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass the laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The Preamble states that there are certain unalienable rights that government should never violate. Those rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
Stamp Act
The theory of a virtual representation held that the members of the Parliament did not only represent their specific geographical constituencies, but rather that they took into a consideration the well-being of all British subjects when deliberating on legislation. -
Quartering Act
british officers followed the Quartering Act’s injunction to quarter their soldiers in public places, not in private homes. Within these constraints, their only option was to pitch tents on Boston Common -
Shot Heard Around the World
After the fight came to a close the eight Americans were dead and ten were wounded. This is in the comparison to one wounded British soldiers -
Committee of Correspondence
They were a organized in the decade before the Revolution, when the deteriorating were in a relationship with Great Britain made it increasingly important -
Boston Massacre
aroused in the intense public protests and threats of violent retaliation. -
Proclamation Line
protecting the colonists from Indian rampages, and the measure was also intended to the shield Native Americans from increasingly frequent attacks by white settlers. -
Tea Act
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act of rekindled of their opposition to it. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Parliament hoped that there acts would cut in to Boston and New England off from the rest of the colonies and prevent unified resistance to British rule. They expected that the rest of the colonies to abandon Bostonian's to British martial law. -
Common Sense
Paine says that he knows many will not favor his argument because it challenges the status quo of the colonies and the rule of the British government -
Boston Tea Party
a wave of resistance is throughout the colonies, it had its origin in Parliament’s effort to rescue the financially weakened East India Company so as to continue and benefiting from the company’s valuable position in India.
