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A British issued document, prohibiting Anglo-American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, following the French and Indian was to properly manage territory and prevent further conflict with the Indigenous people. -
A British law that aimed to support revenue from the American colonies by imposing taxes on imported goods and introduced strict enforcement regulations. -
The British had to station a large army in North America as consequence, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, seeking to raise money to pay for said army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications in the colonies. -
A series of British laws Parliament passed, placing taxes on goods imported into the American colonies. -
The British East India Company was in debt from war, steering the British to pass the Tea Act, which forced colonists to ONLY buy tea from the company. Some colonists dressed as Native Americans ad boarded the first shipment of tea, to dump every packet into the Boston Harbor. -
A series of four laws passed by British Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. They closed Boston's port off until the colonists paid for all the tea thrown overboard, crippling British economy. Also appointing Massachusetts with a council over their elected one, restricting town meetings. And undermining colonial justice by any accused British officials in the colonies were to be tried in Britain, if a soldier needed a place to stay, you must let him in. -
A meeting of 12 out of the 13 British American delegates held in Philadelphia. This was a response to the Coercive Acts, congress were addressing colonial grievances and to develop a unified response again British policies, later to create The Declaration of Independence. -
The first military engagements for the American Revolutionary War, marking the colonists' start to fight for independence from Britain. British troops marched into Concord to seize arms but received fierce resistance from the colonial militias and the British were forced to retreat back to Boston. -
Convening in Philadelphia following the failure of the First Continental Congress to resolve their issues with Britain. -
An attack against King George the Third by Thomas Paine, exposing that the Parliament cannot do anything without the King's support. The patriots supported independence from Britain while the loyalists supported the King. -
By Thomas Jefferson, based on John Locke's ideas, addressing those who were still loyal to the king. includes principles of equality, natural right of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, purpose of the government is to 'secure our rights'. Once a government fails to follow the order of natural rights, it's the right of the people to alter or abolish said government.