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The American Revolution
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King George Signs Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was an act that ordered all settlers to leave the Ohio Valley and return to the established colonies. Source:Historychannel.com -
Sugar Act
Also known as the Revenue Act, this controlled colonial trade of sugar molasses, and other products. This also meant there was a tax on sugar against the colonists. Source: "Creating America" textbook -
The Quartering Act of 1765
Colonists were forced to house, or quarter, British soldiers and supply them at the colonies' cost. Source: ushistory.org -
The British Pass The Stamp Act
The purpose of the act was to enable the government to tax legal and business papers used in America. Source:Historychannel.com -
Townshend Acts
The british put taxes on tea,paper,lead, and glass. Source:Historychannel.com -
The Boston Massacre
A crowd of colonists gathere near a group of British soldiers.The crowd began to throw stones and snowballs,and the soldiers began to fire at the colonists killing some on the spot. Source:Historychannel.com -
The Tea Act
This Tea act forced colonists to pay a tax for their tea. Source: "Creating America" textbook -
The Boston Tea Party
Colonists were outraged at the fact that they were being taxed on tea,and decided to dump 342 chests of tea into the sea. Source: "Creating America" textbook -
Intolerable Acts
These were a series of laws by which to punish the colonists. These acts included: Boston Port Act, which shut down Boston's Port, Impartial Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the governor of a colony to move the trial to another place, Massachusets Bay Regulating Act, which did not allow Boston to hold a town meeting, Quartering Act, where colonists housed Brithish soldiers, and the Quebec Act, which granted civil government and religious freedom for the citizens of Quebec. -
First Continental Congress
This was the meeting of the colonies' first continental congress, where they spoke about the Intolerable Acts. Source: ushistory.org -
Lexington and Concord
Samuel Adams,John Hancock, and Patrick Henry led a group of men called minutemen to a battle with the British military. Source:Historychannel.com -
The Declaration Of Independence
Thomas Jefferson was the writer of this article explaining that there be a seperation between britain and the colonies. Source:Historychannel.com
