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Treaty of Paris
It ended the French and Indian War/ Seven Years War. It is also known as the peace Treaty. -
Stamp Act Congress
Nine out of the Thirteen colonies unitingto disscuss the acts of the passed Stamp Act. -
The Townshend Acts
The name of the act comes from Charles Townshend, Chanellor of the Exchequer. The British paraliamentary measured the tax to the American colonists. The tax is put on lead,paint, glass,paper,and tea. The colonists did not like this so they protested. -
The Boston Massacre
The killing of five colonists by British soilders. It was a civilian-military tensions that grew when the royal troops appeared in Massachusetts to enforce heavy tax burden. -
The Boston Tea Party
The colonist got together to protest the of the Stamp Act and Tea Act. They sneak to the ship which had all the tea and dumped it into the sea to make their point. -
First Continental Congress
A convention of the Twelve of the Thirteen colonies. They met about economic boycott of British trade. Then, they published a list of rights and privalges after, wrote a petition for King George. -
Second Continental Congress Called
It is a Convention of people from the Thirteen Colonies getting together. Talking about moving to Indpendence which called, for adopting the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
It is a document that showed the United States Independence. -
Articles of Confederation passed
The first consitution for the United States of America which legally establish union of the states. This played a important part in the Revolutary War.
