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Navigation Act
Required all European goods heading to America to be shipped through England first -
French and Indian War
War between the British American colonies and French colonies -
Stamp Act
American colonists were required to pay taxes on printed material -
Boston Tea Party
342 chests of tea were thrown off ships -
FIrst Continental Congress
The 13 colonies met at Carpenter's Hall to organize resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts -
The Second Continental Congress
The questions were different. It was agreed that a Continental Army would be created because of the military threat of the British. -
The Declaration of Indepenence
Statement adopted by second contintental congress. It announced that the thirteen colonies were independent from the british -
George III becomes king of Great Britain
King George was crowned Sptember 22 at Westminster Abbey -
The United States Constitution
The supreme law of the United States. The first three articles are the separation of powers, where the government is divided in 3 branches. Articles four five and six are concepts of federalism. Article seven describes the procedure to ratify the constitution