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Treaty of Paris
This treaty was signed at the Hotel d’York. It also was the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War which was between Great Britain and the United States. -
The Proclamation Act
No settlement was allowed past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains and was issued by King George III -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was created to raise revenu from America. -
The Stamp Act
Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed because all American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of unprinted paper used. -
The Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a an act in which the American colonists had to provide British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal agreement were unconstitutional. -
Stamp Act Repealed
After four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
Declartory Act
The American Colonies Act is commonly known as the Declaratory Act. It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which went along with the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changed and lessened the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed which led to a campaign. -
Committee of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were secret governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The people did not like it and it was a resulted in the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. They met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Retition)
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The announcement that the 13 colonies were now independent and no longer part of the British Empire. they formed a new nation, the united states of america