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Navigation Acts 1651
Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels which resulted in the Anglo-Dutch War in 1652. -
French and Indian War
The North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
Proclamation of 1763
Its a forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
It was revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
It was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all Americans colonists and required them to pay a tax. -
Townshend Acts
It was a series of acts passed. The acts was named after Charles Townshend, -
Boston Massacre
Was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. -
2nd Continental Congress
They made decisions when and where to attack the British and how to protect themselves. -
Declaratory Act
Was the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.