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French-Indian War
North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts imposed taxes on various imported goods to the American colonies, including glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea, with the primary goal of raising revenue to pay -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required American colonies to provide housing and supplies -
Stamp act
The stamp act raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre helped galvanize Boston and the colonies against the mother country -
Boston Tea Party
Tensions between the American colonists and their British colonizers had been brewing for years, much of it about tea, and finally erupted into the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
Battle of Lexington concord famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's 47-page pamphlet “Common Sense” helped sway the Thirteen Colonies toward independence with his persuasive and passionate case for separation from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The document, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, declared the 13 American colonies' separation from Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
Constitutional Convention
to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.