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Navigation Acts
Series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipd for trade between every country except Britain. Ended 200 years later. -
French And Indian War
This war was fought by the French, Native Americans, the British and the colonists over land and national rivalry.
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Stamp Act
Act of the British Paliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued 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 Year's War, whcih forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Massacre
Street fight between a "patriot" mob.
Threw snowballs, stone, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
Several colonists were killed which led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Boston Tea Party
AKA: "The Destruction of the Tea in Boston"
~Political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable/ Coercive Acts
American Patriot's name for a series of punitive laws passed byt he British Paliament after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies.
Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Book that challenged the authority of the British gov't and the royal monarchy. He used this to speak to the common people of America. First work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
