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French Indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain huge territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Navigation Acts
were acts of Parliament deliberate
to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
stamp act
made the colonists pay taxes, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, -
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Boston Tea Party
was an American political and threw boxes of tea into the boston harbor ocean -
Intolerable Acts
a series of four laws punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party. -
Olive Branch Petition
consent by the Congress to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The first battle of the revolution -
Declaration of Independence
original daft written by Thomas Jefferson listed grievances (complaints) against england announces American independence. -
Common Sense
pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from great British to people in the thirteen colonies. -
Articles of Confederation
1st constitution establishes a firm league of friendship with a weak national government. -
Second Continental Congress
established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. The king refused to hear the petition and declared the American colonies in revolt. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion did not succeed. For many, the rebellion symbolized a fatal weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation. Because the Congress had no power to raise money, it could not help the states pay off their war debts, which made the states to tax their citizens heavily. -
Constitutional Convention
they met to address the problem of the weak central government which the article of confederation