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Forbid the Americans colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains.Was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America
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Tax placed on all goods by the British to help pay for the french and Indian war later repealed. British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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This acts says colonists have to house and feed British troops. This act caused the Boston massacre
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Stated parliament had the right to tax the colonists at anytime.
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Series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. This act is named after Charles Townshend
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Incident where five colonist were killed by British soldiers. This happen because of the quartering act.
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The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company
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Incident where sons of liberty dumped large amounts of British Tea into the Boston harbor.
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Also known as the Coercive Acts a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Referred to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
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Is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
