U1 13 colonies & Road to Rev

set a tax on sugar & taxes taxable items: wine, cloth, coffee &silk

five civilian colonists were killed by British soldiers. It was the culmination of civilian-military tensions result a heavy tax was imposed

was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies that required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used (legal

regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. The Proclamation of 1763 forbade English colonists to live west of the Appalachian

secret organization of American colonists that protested famous saying no taxation without representation

also called Coercive Acts, intended to punish the colony of Massachusetts for destroying the tea & show other American colonies what might happen i they disobey

written by Jefferson, announced that the 13 colonies were now independent states & no longer part of the British Empire

required colonies to provide the basic needs of British Soldiers - housing, cooking, firewood & candles

after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it