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navigation acts
acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods -
French-Indian War
The French and Indian War, the North American phase of the larger Seven Years' War, began after a series of incidents in the upper Ohio River valley, which the French and British governments both claimed as their territory. -
Stamp Act
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
quartering acts
requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages -
Townsend acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston massacre
a bloody fight that had a few deaths -
olive branch petition
adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
Boston tea party
people threw tea into water because of taxes -
intolerable acts
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
articals of confed
first constitution of the us -
battle of legington and concord
it was the shot heard around the world aka the first shot -
common sense
to explain to the colonists that they must fight for independence from Britain -
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
second continental congress
established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief -
says rebelion
symbolized a fatal weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation. -
constitutional convention
met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.