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Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Act where Boston is punished for their part in the Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston Harbor; closed their government offices and led to the First Continental Congress -
Proclamation Line
forbid the American colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Declaration Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accomplished the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same America as in Great Britain -
Quartering Acts
required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers -
Stamp Act
tax placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War; later repealed -
Townshend Acts
were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
Incident where five colonist were killed by British Soldiers -
Committee of Correspondence
Network of Individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies; created after Boston Massacre -
Boston Tea Party
Incident where the Sons of Liberty dumped large amounts of British Tea into the Boston Harbor -
Shot Heard Around the World
The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emersons -
Declaration of Independence
Document that Declarations the independence of the United States from Great Britain; written by Thomas Jefferson -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine -
Tea Act
this lowered the tax on British tea, making it cheaper than the one non-British tea colonists smuggled
