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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonists by English goods and limited trade between the colonies and other countries. -
Treaty 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 Noth America and expanded British territory and increased debt. -
Proclamation of 1763
This proclamation stated that no one was to settle beyond the Appalachian mountains. This prevented the British from paying for the protection of the colonists from the Native Americans, who were angry that the French had left. -
Sugar Act
This tax lowerd the tax on sugar and molasses. The british strictly enforced this tax in order to avoid the act of smuggling. -
Writs of Assiistance
These were search warrants that allowed British soldiers to search any colonist' s belongings. This is because the colonists were smuggling goods and the king wanted to make it clear that he was in charde. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was supposed to be a meeting of delegates from each of the 13 colonies, though not every colony showed up. The goal was to agree on a united plan of action to boycott British goods. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act taxed all stamps which were required for all paper. This included letters and even newspaper. -
Quartering Acts
The British sent troops to the colonies. They forced the colonists to give the soilders supplies and a place to stay. -
Declaratory Acts
The British are worried about unrest in the colonies. They passed a law that stated that they still held all power in the colonies. -
Townsend Acts
So this is a tax on pretty much everything in an effort to raise the revenue of the colonies. The Bristish tax paper, glass, paint, and tea. basically what every colonist uses. -
Boston Massacre
An angry mob of colonists surrounded a single British guard, so he called for help. The mob was yelling and throwing things at the British soldiers. At some point, the British soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing 5. -
Tea Act
An act passed by parliament that gave Britain's East India Company a monopoly on tea to the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists angry with the east india company's monopoly on tea dressed as mohawk indians went out to protest. They dumped hundreds of pounds of tea into the boston harbor. -
coercive Acts
Referred to as the intolerable acts by the colonies, the coercive acts were acts imposed on Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party. These acts stated that the Boston Harbor would be closed until all tea was paid back, meetings could not be held withought permission, british officers were immune to criminal prosecution, the quartering act, and the quebec act. -
First Continental Congress
This event was organized by the committees of correspondence to ban trade with Britain to prostest the intolerable acts, build a militia, and plant the seeds for a future independant government. -
Olive Branch Petition
the colonies made one last attempt at peace with the British, but the British refused their offer. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Britih were trying to take a hill from the colonists. It took them 3 tries to get up the hill before the militia ran out of ammo and was forced to retreat. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
70 Minutemen faced off against 700 British soldiers to send a message that they were ready to fight. No one knows who fired first. The militia was forced to retreat. However, the militia later attacked the British as they were marching back to Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
The colonies are getting ready to fight. They meet to agree to organize an army, name George Washington as the general, and authorize printing of money to pay soilders. -
Common Sense
This is a pamphlet by Thomas Paine arguing that a complete break from Britain is necessary and the colonies should become an independant nation. -
declaration of independence
A declaration from t]he colonies explainig why they should break off from Britain and gain independence.