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Proclamation Line
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Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Quartering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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Declaratory Act
Tax the American Colonies.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-declaratory-act-of-1766-definition-summary.html -
Townshend Act
taxed items like tea, paper, and glass.
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Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonists, killing 5 of them.
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Tea Act
lowered the tax on British Tea, making it cheaper than the non-British tea colonists smuggled.
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Committee of Correspondence
Instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia.
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Boston Tea Party
Colonists, disgusted as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Tea Party.
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Intolerable/Coercive Act
England shut down the Boston Harbor, stopped allowing elections, and expanded the Quartering Act.
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Shot Heard Around The World
Phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson meaning it was the first shot of the American Revolutionary War.
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote this document to push for independence. It was influenced by enlightenment ideas on natural rights and compact theory.
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Declaration of Independence
To explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain.
http://mrnussbaum.com/pdfs/declaration_of_independence.pdf
