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Treaty of Paris
ended the french and Indian war and France gave up all its territories -
Proclamation Act
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
A three cent tax that was put on foreign sugars and a tax increase on things such as coffee, molasses and certain types of wine. -
The Quartering Act
A law that was passed saying that local colonial governments were to give British soldiers who were stationed in the 13 colonies of America to provide them provisions -
Stamp Act Congress
The first gathering to protest British taxation -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without consent were unconstitutional -
Stamp Act Repealed
They repealed the stamp act -
Townshend Act
imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea -
Boston Massacre
several soldiers died in a mob -
Committee of Correspondence
Something that was created by American colonies to keep in contact with the other colonies -
Tea Act
An act that give the allowance of monopolizing tea trade -
Boston Tea Party
several hundred chests of tea were thrown into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston tea party -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 colonies -
Bunker Hill
First great battle of the revolutionary war -
Lexington & Concord
Seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
A final attempt to avoid a war between the colonies and Britain -
Declaratory Act
An act that followed the stamp act that basically reaffirmed Parliament's right to "bind" the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
A formal statement written declaring freedom of 13 colonies from Britain