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The Treaty of Paris
The treaty which ended the war between France and Great Britain within the war of the Seven Year War. -
Proclamation Act
This act was to prevent colonials to move west from the Appalachian Mountains to try and appease the Native Americans. -
The Sugar Act
An act which was placed upon which the merchants would have to pay tax on foreign molasses. -
The Stamp Act
This act was moved by the British Parliament. Taxing every type of printed paper to the colonists. -
The Quartering Act
An act of which American colonists had to provide shelter and food for British soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting between the the colonies, consisting nine of them with 27 delegates. -
Declaratory Act
An act of which was lead by the repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parliament to say that the taxing in Great Britain was the same as Americas but also to show authority over the colonists. -
Stamp Act Repealed
With protests coming from Benjamin Franklin, the Stamp Act voted to be repealed. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures which had placed taxes on items like glass, tea, lead and paper. -
The Boston Massacre
Five colonists had died from a squad of British soldiers. -
Committees of Correspondence
It was used as a communication link through all of the Thirteen colonies as a response to the British policy. -
The Tea Act
An act which was placed upon to tax the tea due to British East India Company nearly collapsing. -
The Boston Tea Party
Massachusetts colonists had thrown 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts
An act meant to punish the colonists with a series of laws from the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
Twelve of the Thirteen delegates who had set up a meeting, discussing on the circumstances. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
A document meant for the King explaining on his subjects rights in the colony. -
Bunker Hill
A battle in Massachusetts in which the British and the colony had fought against each other and the battle that the British had won. -
Olive Branch Petition
The congress had adopted the Olive Branch Petition in a final attempt to prevent a full on war against the British. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battles that had started off the Revolutionary War with the colony and british empire. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet of which was made by Thomas Paine, who had sided in gaining Americas Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The document which had legally separated the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain, making the Colony officially independent.
