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Treaty of Paris
This was the agreement signed that ended the French and Indian/7 Years War between the French and British. -
Proclamation Act
This was an attempt to establish a western border at the Appalachian Mountains for the 13 colonies. -
The Sugar Act
This was an act passed to renew the sugar and molasses act of 1733, an act that had taxed merchants of sugar. -
Stamp Act
Parliament passed an act where every printed document now has a tax. -
The Quartering Act
The was an acted passed by the British, in which the colonists would need to house the British soldiers in times of war. -
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Stamp Act Congress
This was the first congress held by the American people. It was in response to the stamp act passed by parliament -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
This was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress; No taxation without representation. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Due to all the protests conducted by the colonists, the stamp act had been removed by parliament. -
Declaratory Act
This act came with the repeal of the stamp act. It stated that Parliament had the same taxing rights in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The British had created multiple law that taxed glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
This was an argument that got wildly of a hand between the British soldiers and the colonists in Boston, even though only few had actually died. -
Committee of Correspondence
This was a gathering that showed a shadow to what the government will become -
Tea Act
An act that put tax on tea. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a reaction to the tea act it. The sons of liberty dumped the tea being imported into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
These were five acts passed in response to the Boston tea party. -
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1st Continental Congress
Twelve of the thirteen colonies had delegates meet in the early part of the revolution. -
Lexington & Concord
The first battle in the American Revolution. It was the shot heard around the world that no one know who shot it. -
Bunker Hill
This was a British victory in Massachusetts in the early days of the American Revolution. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected
King George refused to accept the American colonist offer for peace and independence, starting the revolution -
Common Sense
This was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine as to why the colonist should be free from England. -
Declaration of Independence
This the written document that outlined the government for America.
