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French and Indian War
a seven year long war between Britain and France. -
Proclamation of 1763
a royal proclamation which closed down colonial expansion westward after the French and Indian war -
Sugar Act
a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies -
Stamp Act
a new tax imposed on all american colonist, they were required to pay a tax on every printed paper they use -
Quartering Act
required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies -
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Townshend Act
a series of laws by the British government on the American colonies -
Boston Massacre
a deadly riot between American colonists and British soldiers -
Tea Party
not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India company -
Boston Tea Party
a protest against British Parliaments tax on tea -
Coercive Acts
a series of of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 british colonies that became the US -
Shot Heard Around the World
700 British soldiers soldiers were told to destroy colonial military supplies in Concord, Massachusetts. -
Second Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from the thirteen colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
Common Sense was to set forth his arguments in favor of American Independence -
Declaration of Independence
explains why the colonies should break away