Tags & Description
Proclamation Line of 1763
prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains
Stamp Act of 1765
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
Salutary Neglect
An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies
Townshend Acts
A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
No taxation w/o representation
The assertion that Great Britain had no right to tax the American colonies as long as they did not have their own representatives in the British Parliament. (James Otis)
Join or Die Cartoon
A cartoon that Benjamin Franklin made to convince the colonists to unite for defense first appeared in French and Indian War
French and Indian War
(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.
Boston Tea Party
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 Massacre
The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans