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was a series of laws passed by the British parliament that imposed colonial trade -
a way for a colonie legislatures to communicate with their agents in London -
one of the main causes of the American revoulation -
a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains -
sugar act cut the the duty of foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, rand etained a high duty of foreign refined sugar. -
a well organized patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy -
is a tax by the British to the American colonies and it placed a tax on paper -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
it was a skrimish between colonist rioters and British soldiers that ended with five deaths -
a series of four laws passed by the British paraliments to punish the colony -
made a clear case for independence and was directly attacked by political, economic, and obstacles to achieve
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a meeting of delegates of 12 of thirteen colonies held from septembebr 5 to October 26, 1774 -
a protest about the tax on tea -
expresses the urgency of the American colonies' desire for freedom from British rule -
adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war -
an official act taken by all 13 American colonies from British rule. -
Congress assumed the normal functions of a government, appointing ambassadors, issuing paper -
the famous 'shot heard round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence