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Navigation Acts
Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade -
French-Indian War
was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies -
Stamp act
exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers -
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred -
Boston Tea Party
taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament -
Quartering Act
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
a gunshot went off forcing the British to attack. Some of the colonists were killed and the rest fled. The gunshot was the first shot of the American Revolution -
Olive Branch Petition
emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens -
Second Continental Congress
a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it -
Declaration of Independence
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the pronouncement -
Articles of Confederation
Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States of America -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry