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Navagation's Act
a long series of english laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies. -
French - Indian War
Because of the French-Indian War England owed huge debt. England goes from salutary neglect to mercantilism. -
Stamp Act
helped pay taxes for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven years war. -
Quartering Act
required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies -
Townshend Act
a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies -
Boston Masscre
a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston -
Boston Tea Party
an American political and mercantile protest by the sons of Liberty -
Intolerable Act
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war -
Second Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War -
Olive Branch Petition
a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain -
Common Sense
a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775 - 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Articles of Confederation
an agreement among the 13 original states of the USA that served as its first constitution -
Daniel Shay Rebellion
an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was to decide on how America was going to be governed, but it was officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.
