Colonial

A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.

The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century.

Several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.

In this video lesson we will be looking at the road to Revolution. The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America.

The Tea Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.

In this video lesson we will be looking at the end of the Revolutionary War. The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America.

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

A stamp act is legislation that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents.