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Stamp Act Congress
a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act. -
Townshend Act
a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America -
The Boston Massacre
an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops -
The Boston Tea Party
direct action by group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor -
First Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Second Continental Congress Called
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies fter warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Declaration of Independence
a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Articles of Confederation Passed
he first constitution of the United States of America and legally established the union of the states -
Treaty of Paris
ended war between Great Britain and the United States of America
