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Pontiac's Rebellion
A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area -
Proclamation of 1763
LAw forbidding English colonists to settle west of Appalachain Mountains -
Sugar act
The colonist stopped buying sugar and they switch to coffe because they didn't want to pay taxes for sugar. -
The Stamp Act
Anything that got stamped then the colonist need to pay tax on it. -
Townshead Act
It taxed British goods that were imported to the Americans -
The Boston Massacre
A group of British soldiers shot 5 Amerian colonist -
Boston Tea party
The Natives Americans dumped valuable tea in the ocean -
Intolerable Act
After the Boston Tea party British publish a Intolerable Act that aimed to punish the Massachusetts colonies. -
First Continental Congress
The twelve Delegates from the Americans colonies met to discuss about the future of America. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
It was one of the first battles of the Revolustionary War. And no one knows who shot first. -
America Revolution
It was a war that the Americans had to fight for thier independence from Great Britian -
Olive Branch Petition
On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances -
Thomas Paine's Common sense
The Author who wrote Common Sense was Thomas Paine. He wrote the book to claim that the colonist had the right to be a independent Nation -
Declaration of Independence
It was a document that announced the seperation of the 13 colonies from Great Britian -
Battle of Saratoga
The Americans won the war with the British troops that was the turning point in the American Revolution -
Articles of Confederation
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Valley Forge
Many of Washingtons troops died by a disease called Chickenpox -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington out smarted the British by surrounding them and made them surrender. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recongnized the Independence of America -
Great Compromise
Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house
