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Proclomation of 1763
The Proclomation of 1763 was a law that forbade all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains. -
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Road to the Revolution
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The Sugar Act
The Suagr Act placed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other imported products. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required all legal and commercial documents to have an official stamp showing that the tax had been paid. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was a money-saving action that required colonists to provid supplies for, and house British soldiers. -
Sons of Liberty
A secret society that often used violence to enforce boycotts. -
Stamp Act Congress
The first meeting of the colonies to consider acting together to protest polocies of the British government. -
Declatory Act
This was passed when Parliment repealed the stamp act. It said Parliment had supreme autority to rule the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
A series of direct and indirect taxes; manly indirect on paper, lead, glass, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of 5 colonists by British soldiers. Th sodiers did not just shoot into a calm crowd, the mob was chaos. One man was showved down/knocked down and the fired. After he fired, the rest of the men did soon after. -
The Intolerable Acts
A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the colonists for their behavior. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started a meeting in the summer of 1775, soon after the war had just begun. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
It was fought during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the war. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence
It is the document that the continental congress came up with at their meeting that announced all thirteen colonies free from Britain and ended the war.
