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Navigation Acts (1763)
Imposed colonial trade -
Stamp Act
a tax on any paper or documents -
Townshend Acts
Put a tax on special idems -
Boston Massacre
Soldiers shot into the crowd of colonists after a snowball was thrown -
Boston Tea Party
Where the colonists threw tea off the boat because of the tax -
Quartering Act
Colonists had to house the soldiers -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
5 laws to the aimed to raise authority to the colonists -
Olive Branch Petition
Final attempt by the colonists to not go to war -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
First battle of the revoltirnary war -
Second Continental Congress
They approved the DOI the second time, with delegates from 13 colonies -
Declaration of Independence
Gave us all of rights and laws -
French-Indian War (1756-1763)
A conflict fought between the British and French over New World territory for 7 years. -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine -
Articles of Confederation
Served as the first constitution -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Where the poor people and farmers had a uprising -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
To address the problems with the federal goverment
