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Stamp Act
It was a tax on anything on paper including newspapers, brochures, and even playing cards. -
Navigation Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired on unarmed colonists, 5 were killed. It was a protest against a tax on tea. Colonists snuck aboard British ships and dumped tea. -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, and barns, alehouses, inns. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
A battle that kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Someone fired "the shot heard around the world". Eight minutemen were killed, and a dozen or so were wounded. -
Second Continental Congress
Meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. This established American Independence from the British Empire. -
Declaration of Independence
It was a document that expresses the ideals on which the United States of America was founded, and why it separated from Great Britain.