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A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
Proclamation of 1763
On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament, which in December 1775 passed the American Prohibitory Act forbidding all further trade with the colonies.
Olive Branch Petition
Consisting of four acts in 1774, parliament closed the port of Boston, drastically reduced colonial self-government, permitted royal officers to be tried in other colonies or in England when accused of crimes, and provided for the quartering of troops in the colonists' barns and empty houses.
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
A mob of Pennsylvania Scots-Irish Immigrants who led a revolt to protest colonial policies towards non-violent Native Americans
Paxton Boys
Rhode Island colonists boarded the HMS Gaspee, a British ship, looted it, then burned and sank it in 1772.
Gaspee Affair
Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasize a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Thomas Paine/Common Sense
a 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area
Pontiacs Rebellion
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence.
Loyalists/Tories
Reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament.
"No taxation without representation"
An act that raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. It also increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies; modified the 1733 Molasses Act.
Sugar Act of 1764
A series of works by Thomas Paine written between 1776 and 1783 during the American Revolution. These papers were written in a language common people could understand it increase American morale.
Crisis Papers
An act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists
Quartering Act
A radical political organization formed after the passage of the Stamp Act to protest various British acts; organization used both peaceful and violent means of protest; led the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of Liberty
An act passed by the British parliament in 1765 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents.
Stamp Act
Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party.
Tea Act
A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament, and it showed signs of colonial unity and organized resistance.
Stamp Act Congress
Taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. Taxes were low but colonists still objected.
Townshed Acts
Brought together delegates from each of the thirteen colonies except Georgia; represents first-time colonists actually met together; served as a model for forming the U.S. government.
First/Second Continental Congress
Non-Importation Agreements
Agreements not to import goods from Great Britain. They were designed to put pressure on the British economy and force the repeal of unpopular parliamentary acts.
American victories over British troops in 1777 that, together, were considered a turning point in the American Revolution. American success persuaded the French to recognize American independence and to openly provide military assistance.
Battles of Saratoga
On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament, which in December 1775 passed the American Prohibitory Act forbidding all further trade with the colonies.
Stamp Act Congress
Demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor.
Boston Tea Party
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution.
Boston Massacre
British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members.
Virtual Representation
american silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonistss in lexington and concord that british troops were coming on april 18/19
paul revere