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Writs of Assistance
Documents served as a general search warrant. allowing custom officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The treaty that ended the French and Indian war. The french lost all their land in North America. The British gained the land to the Mississippi. -
Pontiacs rebellion
Rebellion led by chief Pontiac against British settlers out west. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
The conflicts and blooded on the new Western Lands, the British proclaim that no one is to live west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion was happened in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio County. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George lll followed Great Britain's gain of French territory in North America after the war ended. -
Sugar Act
Lower price of tax to 3 pence. The British enforce this tax strictly. They had harsh punishments for smugglers. -
Stamp Act
Required all colonist to purchase stamps, and stamp marks, form England on every piece of legal paper and other printed paper. -
Quatering Act
You have to provide a British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonist to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Declaratory Act
It stated that Britain Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Acts
Series of British acts passed in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
Was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Tea Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Coercive Acts
The coercive acts harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies represented in that Congress. Wikipedia -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.