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French Indian- war
The French and Indian War was a long Seven-Year War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts was an act of Parliament that intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and lowering dependence on foreign imported goods. -
Stamp Act
The act required the colonists to pay taxes, represented by a stamp, on many forms of papers, documents, and playing cards, and more. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and would have to open their houses publicly. -
Townshend Acts
the Townshend act was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and causing a rumble before the revolution war. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was where more than 100 men gathered together and dumped 342 cheats of tea into the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the 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
the Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution which established American independence from the British Empire. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
In this first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and went abroad on a lengthy war to earn their independence rights -
Olive Branch Petition
the Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be delivered to the King as a last try to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Common Sense
Common Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
Declaration of Independence
the Declaration of Independence was built on the American settlers' . for unity, freedom, and protection of individual rights. The Declaration's clarion call to self-government and freedom began the nation. -
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. This document served as the United States' first constitution. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester for a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.