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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonists buy English goods and limited trade between the colonies and other countries. -
Writs Of Assistants
Writs Of Assistance is when the police officers were given a general warrant to search anyone's house at any time if they suspected them. This made the colonists very angry because they believed they didn't have the right too do that. -
Treat Of Paris of 1763
The document that ended the war between the British and French over the Ohio River Valley. This treaty ended French power in North America and expanded British territory and increases debt. -
Proclamation Of 1763
It finalized The Treaty of Paris saying that the American colonists did not have any power or territory in North America. This was just an official announcement letting everyone know what was happening. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was when the British taxed the sugar. This caused the colonists to be angry and act rebelliously -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was when the British Taxed the American colonist for every piece of printed paper they used. They colonists did not agree with what the British were doing so they created groups like the son of liberty and the refused to buy British goods. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act was when colonists were forced too house British solders. Some colonists refused to do so because they felt it violated the Bill Of Rights. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was the first gathering of elected representatives. It was so important because everyone came together even with their differences to came to a mutual decision. -
declaratory act
It was when they agreed to repeal the stamp act. The colonists were happy about that because they protested and boycotted to get it repealed. -
Townshend acts
It was when the British taxed goods imported to the colonists. They believed the colonists would never know if the added the taxes as soon as they were off the boat. Well the colonists did notice and were furious and boycotted/protested. -
boston massacre
The Boston massacre was when the British killed 5 men, They claimed that the British called fire and they were doing nothing to hurt the solders to shoot. The solders and captain went to the court and testified but they were not guilty of murder. -
Tea act
The tea act was when the British taxed tea just so they still had control of the colonists in some way. The colonists rebelled by dumping all of the tea into the Boston Harber. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was how the colonists rebelled against the tea acts. The British didnt’t try And stop them but later they created laws as s punishment. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting early in the revolution and it was about the intolerable acts they passed to punish the colonists -
Coercive Acts
The act was the punishment for the Boston tea party. The colonists were angered by these laws and argued that it went against their rights and some refused to abide by the rules. -
Second Continental Congress
It was like a meeting between the colonies to talk about managing the war and moved towards independence. -
Olive Branch Petition
It was the final attempt to avoid war between Britain and the colonists. It affirmed colonists loyalty to British and to urgently ask the king to not make any more conflict. -
Battles Of Lexington And Concord
First battle for the revolutionary war. The colonists showed up out of no where but no one wanted to fight but someone fired and it caused the battle to begin. No one still to this day knows who shot the first shot. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The colonists were fighting for the hill but in the end the British won and still had the hill. Even though they lost they took pride in what they done because they killed a lot of British troops. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine wrote the Declaration of Independence. Everyone who signed it took the risk of the country failing and being the first people to be hanged. -
Common Sense
When Thomas Paine wrote the proposal for the Declaration of Independence. If the colonies agreed then the colonists would have their own country which is the United States Of America.