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Navigation acts 1763
Required all of a colony's imports to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain, regardless of the price obtainable elsewhere. -
French-Indian war (1756-1763)
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
Stamp Act
Sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses . -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
Nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, They dressed as indians and snuck on the the ship and dumped all the tea -
Intolerable Acts (coercive acts)
Four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause. -
Second Continental Congress
The meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
Olive Branch Petition
Be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Common Sense
"knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument". As such, it is often considered to represent the basic level of sound practical judgement or knowledge of basic facts that any adult human being ought to possess. -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
Document served as the United States' first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect -
Daniel Shays' Rebellion
Uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
Constitutional Convention
Address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.