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french/indian war(1756-1763)
A war between France and England -
Navigation acts
British laws that restricted the use of shipping and trade -
stamp act
all legal documents and printed papers used in the American colonies had to have an official stamp. -
quartering act
requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces -
Townshend Act
that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing many. -
boston tea party
342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians -
intolerable acts
British measures passed in 1774 that punished the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
olive branch petition
IT was a petition sent to the king that emphasized loyalty to the British crown and emphasized rights as British citizens -
battle of lexington and concord
first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were between British soldiers and American colonists -
second continental congress
the representative government that brought the American colonies together as they prepared for their revolution -
common sense
47-page pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
the public act of declaring the American colonies independent from Great Britain.
proclaimed that the 13 original colonies of America were “free and independent states. -
articles of confederation
the first constitution of the 13 independent American colonies. -
Daniel Shay's rebellion
the uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions -
Constitutional Convention
A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution. It addresses the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.