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Proclamation Line
The Proclamation law allowed settlers to be able to settle in places such as Florida and Tennessee for a place to be able to grow groups, well eventually this law failed because there were already settlers who had already moved there.
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Stamp Act
When the Stamp Act was passed is made all people pay taxes on all pieces of printed paper that they need to use. The money collected form the Stamp Act was used to cover certain costs for the people defending and protecting us.
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Quartering Act
The Quartering Act allowed British soldiers to live in other people's resident. The soldiers had to be provided with food and anything that was needed for the soldier to survive, This also caused problems with people rights, they felt that this violated the Bill Of Rights.
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Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act was passed in Mid March by the parliament of Great Britain. The Declaratory Act declared the Parliament's Authority to pass the binding laws such as the power to tax.
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Townshend Acts Of 1767
The Townshend Acts included taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea brought into the colonies. The Townshend Act of 1767 used their money earned to keep British troops in America. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre started out as a snowball fight and ending as a violent fight. The fight was eventually broken up by Thomas Hutchinson many people were wounded and 13 people were sent to jail for murder. This event was stated as one of Britain "Evil Rule"
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Committee of Correspondence
The committee of correspondence was a group that was formed due to unfair treatment by Britain. Due to the Samuel Adams created a committee to give the colonists their rights.
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Tea Act
When the Tea Act was enforced this stated that you could you could not buy any tea unless it came from particular company. Most colonies looked at this as "Taxation without Representation".
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Boston Tea Party
The Massachusetts patriots decided to dump tea into the Boston Harbor. This event mainly happened because the colonists were angry about the new Tea Act.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were 5 laws passed by Great Britain. The laws were basically enforced for punishment towards the Boston Tea Act.
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"Shot Heard Around the World"
The "shots heard around the world "marked the beginning of the revolutionary war. The British decided to try to seize all gunpowder from colonists and the colonists did not respond to this in a happy way, they were very upset, which led to them confronting each other and there the first gunshot went off and this started a battle.
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Common Sense
The Common Sense pamphlet was made by Thomas Paine. This was very popular and sold over 100,000 times
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence document was created because the 13 American colonies wanted to be free from the Great Britain's Government.
The Declaration of Independence states that people rights are created equal and that they have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
