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Navigation Act
*The Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain.
*The Navigation Act bill was passed on 9 October 1651 -
French and Indian War
*This War is also known as the Seven Years’ War.
*This New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France.
* It lasted from 1756 to 1763 -
George III becomes the king of Great Britian
*He was the first Hanoverian king born in England rather than Germany.
*George III became king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1760 following his grandfather George II’s death. -
Stamp Act
*The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765
*The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
*10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose -
Boston Tea Party
*An act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation.
*The merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure.
* British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. -
First Continental Congress
*In response to the British Parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies
* Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were among the delegates.
*The first major American came in 1765 after Parliament passed the Stamp Act -
The second continental congress
*The Second Continental Congress met as agreed on May 5, 1775.
* The professional imperial army was attempting to arrest patriot leaders. -
Declation of Independence
*The Declaration of Independence severed the political connections between the thirteen original American colonies and Great Britain.
*The people did this act because they were expresing themself By declaring themselves an independent nation -
United States Constitution
*The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America
*The separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress
*It is the rights and responsibilities of state governments and of the states in relationship to the federal government. -
The Bill of Rights
*A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth
*The first draft set up a system of checks and balances that included a strong executive branch of the Government.
