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Navigation Acts
Laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade.The acts made colonists buy English goods and limited trade with other countries. -
Proclamation of 1763
It kept colonists and natives from fighting.It restricted colonists from going west of the Appalachian Mountains.It also increased British taxes for the war debt. -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The document that ended the war between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley.This treaty ended French power in North America and expanded British territory and increase British debt. -
Sugar Act
The 6 pence tax was lowered to 3 pence tax. This law was enforced strictly by the British to harshly punish smugglers. It taxed many food supplies. -
Writs Of Assistance
The British are allowed to search any property for search warrants and smuggled goods. -
Quartering Act
Colonists must house British soldiers whether they like it or not. -
The Stamp Act
All colonists have to buy stamps,and stamp marks, from England on every piece of legal paper and other printed papers. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. -
Declaratory Act
The British had supreme authority to govern the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
Charles Townshend came up with a plan to tax goods before they arrive into the colonies to make colonists less angry. -
Boston Massacre
A British guard was protecting a British customs location until a mob of colonist made a conflict. British reinforcements arrive then later opened fire killing 5 people, among those people was Crispus Attucks. -
Tea Act
The King wanted to at least tax one thing and that was tea.This act made colonists mad. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist were not happy about the tea tax. So they took over the ships carrying tea and started throwing tea overboard. -
Coersive Acts
This act was to punish the colonist who protested in the Boston Tea Party by establishing four acts, The Boston Ports Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, and The Administration Justice Act. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting but with supported decisions.Votes to ban trade with Britain until Intolerable Acts/Coersive Acts are repealed.Called on the building of a militia for the colonies-minutemen. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The British arrived at Lexington and on the way 70 minutemen were waiting.They were in lines ready for battle and suddenly a shot was fired. This was known as "The Shot Heard Around The World" it was unknown who fired first but the shot out of nowhere triggered both sides to open fire.The British outnumbered the colonist and the colonists retreated. 8 minutemen had died during the battle. -
Second Continental Congress
A meeting in Philadelphia that agreed to make an official army, The general was George Washington,Authorized printing of money to pay soldiers, and petitioned King George lll for peace in an attempt to avoid war. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Minutemen took a hill outside of Boston called Bunker Hill. The British attack with 2,200 soldiers.Colonist Colonel William Prescott ordered the minutemen "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!". The British had more ammo than the minutemen. The British and the minutemen fired all at once. The British retreated and charged again multiple times. The British won but both sides had many losses 400 minutemen died and 1,000 British soldiers died. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition represents peace.Continental Congress sends the document to England.The document asks to restore harmony between the colonists and England.