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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.
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No settlement was allowed past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains and was issued by King George III
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The Sugar Act was created to raise revenu from America.
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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.
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Quartering Act is a an act in which the American colonists had to provide British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The committees of correspondence were secret governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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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.
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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.
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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