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Navigation Acts
There was laws passed by england to maintain control over colonial trade. Acts made colonist buy english goods and limited trade with other contries. -
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 american and expanded british territory and british debt. -
The Proclumation Act of 1763
The proclumation act of 1763 was meant to keep the nativesand colonist from fighting. The act made colonist angry because they cannot go west past the Appalachian Mountians. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act of 1764 lowered the tax of sugar to 3 pence. The british enforced this taxes strictly. -
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting held to petition the king about all the taxe being inforeced. The meeting was held in new york between October 7 through october 25 1765. -
Writs of assistance
The Writs of Assistance act was a act saying it was legal for the british soldiers to search your home if they suspected you where smuggling goods. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Required all colonist to purchase stamps, and stamp marks, from England on every peice of legal paper and prited paper. Everyone had to pay this taxes. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies -
Townshend Acts
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident that occured March 3, 1770. It first started as a colonists uprising then led to a street brawl. -
Tea Act
The Tea act was an act passed that taxed tea to help save the financial struggling British East India Company. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest carried out by the sons of liberty the stated the unfair tax on tea. They stated that it was "Taxation Without Representation" -
Coersive Acts
The Coersive Acts where multiple acts passed to punish Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party -
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First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress was a meeting held in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. -
Second Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress was the second meeting following the First Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia in the summer of 1775, shortly after the war with the British had begun. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord were the 2 first fights agianst Britain that sparked the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A battle fought by the militia to take back there hill in Boston. The militia held the british of 3 times The third time the british go the best of them because they where out of ammo. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was the last and final attempt by the colonists to make peace with King George the lll. The document was perposed during the American Revolution. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamplet published by Thomas Paine to persaude colonist to support the thought of Independence for Great britian. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence was a document Written by Thomas Jefferson stating the colinist Desires to be free from Great Britians control