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French-Indian War
The war started in 1754 and ending in 1763 with the treaty of paris. It helped the British with great territorial gain. -
Navigation Acts
It was a line of laws passed by the British that restricted colonial trades by the colonists. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act that imposed taxes on the British colonies in America. Also I sought to raise money for the armies of the British. -
Quartering Act
It stated that the British would make the American colonists allow the British soldiers to live in there houses and tents. -
Townshend Acts
This act stated that there be taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massecre
A group of colonists were protesting In front of British soldiers and snowball was thrown and the soldiers shot some colonist killing 5 and injuring 6. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists came into Britain on a ship and tossed 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbour. -
Intolerable Act
This was a act to make sure the colonists of Massachusetts get punished for the doing of the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
This was the shot heard round the world, which marked the start of American war of Independence -
Second Continental Congress
This added a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander in chief. -
Olive Branch Petition
This was a act that was adopted by the Congress so that the act of war would not begin. -
Common Sense
It was a book written by Thomas Paine to help sway the 13 colonies toward independence with his persuasive and passionate case for separation from Britain -
Declaration of Independence
It listed 27 colonial grievances against King George III and listed 3 kinds of ideas. -
Articles of Confederation
This document served as the united States first constitution. It established the functions of the natural government after declaring independence from Great Britain. -
Daniel Shay's Rebellion
This was an armed uprising in the western parts of Massachusetts because of a dept crisis among the citizens and oppositions of themselves. -
Constitutional Convention
This was a convention held for lots of delegates to address and sort out different problems going on in the weak central government.