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Navigation acts
They were used as a way to enable England to collect duties and regulate trade. -
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French and Indian War
A war between Britain and France over competing land claims in North America -
Proclamation of 1763
A document that was created at the end of the French and Indian War to stop conflict between colonial settlers and American Indians. -
Stamp Act
Passed by British Parliament to put a tax on every single piece of paper that American Colonists used. -
Boston Massacre
A time in which British regulars killed five colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea over board in the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable acts
A set of laws that were passed after the Boston Tea Party by British Parliament as a way to punish colonists from Massachusetts for throwing away the tea shipment. -
1st Continental Congress
A time in which people from twelve of the colonies met toward the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The first engagement by the military at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
At this time, they decided that a Continental Army should be created. -
Bunker Hill
An early battle within the Revolutionary War in which many casualties were caused by colonial forces. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet that was created by Thomas Paine that told the people in the 13 colonies about advocating independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
A document that declared the 13 colonies to be independent from Britain. -
Trenton
A battle in which George Washington "defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing." -
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Valley Forge
The camp where the American Continental Army stayed through the winter of the Revolutionary war. -
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Saratoga
The battle that gave victory to the Americans over Britain in the Revolutionary War. -
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Yorktown
The Revolutionary War's last big battle. -
Treaty of Paris
Gave America independence and ended the Revolutionary war through negotiation with Great Britain.
