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Proclamation Line
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The act that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper -
Quartering Act
Act were the colonies had to with anything they wanted and housing -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was an act of the Parliment Of Great Britian which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767 by the Parliment of Great Britian. They were named after Charels Townshend. -
Boston Massacre
Street fight between " Patriot" mob, throwing snow balls, stones etc. At british red coats which made them shot and kill 5 people -
Committee of Correspondence
were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies -
Tea Act
A tax on all the tea that was sold in the colonies -
Boston Tea Party
When sons of liberty dumped tea into the Boston harbor -
intolerable or Coercive Acts
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston tea party -
Shot Heard Around the World
The first shot of lexington and concord, which started the war -
Common Sense
Pamphlet/ document written by Thomas paine -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, and it announced that the thirteen American colonies
