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Navigation Act
The navigation acts were laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade.The acts made colonists buy English goods and limited trade between the colonies and other countries. -
Writs of Assistance
The writs of assistance made it to where officials could go into any building and look for smuggled goods.They could walk into a house and say they have one and they could go in and search.Now you need a warrent tho. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was meant to keep the natives and colonists from fighting.The colonists got mad bevcause they cannot go past the -
Treaty of paris
The treaty of pairs ended the French and British war that was fought over the Ohio River Valley.This treaty ended French power in North America and expanded British territory. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act made the people of Boston pay 6 pence tax so they would have to pay for all sugar.There was also a very harsh punishment for people who tried to smuggle sugar.They ended up lowing the tax to 3 pence on hope people would pay it. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act was where you had to let a military person stay in your home for as long as they wanted.You had to feed them,give them a bed,and take care of them.A lot of the times they made the girls do things. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act made all people pay on all paper products.The British weren't making enough money to pay for the french and Indian war so they made people pay on all paper products. -
Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act congress was when 12 out of the 13 colones came to Philadelphia and had a meeting.North Carolina said they weren't going to go but they will listen and then they decided they had to many acts. -
Declaratory Act
The declaratory act is where the British had the right to tax anything.The British could put a tax on anything and it would be ok because the British said so. -
Townshend Act
The townshend act required merchants to pay a tax on Paper,tea,lead,glass,and paint.It wasn't fair to the merchants because they had to pay extra tax on everything they use and buy. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a mistake where a croud threw a club at a solderer and the solderer oped fire into the croud.They didnt want people to die all they did was shoot the people but someone painted it and acted like the citizens where innocent but they weren't. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was where the east india company put a monopoly on tea.Tea was the biggest and worst thing to tax do they taxed tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was where people dressed as Indians and they went on two ships filled with tea and they broke open the tea creates and dumped it into the Boston harbor.They dumped over 1 mill worth of tea into the water. -
Coercive Act
The coercive act was 5 laws that where passed than a couple days later the Boston tea party broke out because of the 5 new laws. -
First Continental Congress
Every colonies expect Georgia went to Philadelphia and made a militia and tried to fight.George Washington tried to make a act but it got repelled. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental congress happend when they agree to make an official army.George Washington was the first general of the official army.They all signed a petition to keep and make peace before a war would break out. -
Olive Branch Petition
The olive branch petition was a beg to the king to ask him to have peace and not start a war.The king denied it though and they fought and lost. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and concord happen when 1,000 minutemen tried to fight over 5,000 British solders.When the British where walking home the colonists came out of no where and they killed the British. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The battle of bunker hill happend when 2,200 British soldiers attacked the colonists.The colonists said don't shoot till you see the whites of there eyes which means no one shot till they where very close to them so they wouldn't miss. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was where they went to a place and they had money and they said whos wants to fight for us and they fought and got paid.