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French- indian war (1756-1763)
A war between England and France over land in the New World. England won the war but was in dept. So the king of england decided to tax the colonist. -
Navigation Acts (1763)
Laws that were passed by the British Parliament to restrict trade between the colonies and other countries. Based on the policy called Mercantilism. -
Stamp act
Tax on anything on paper -
Quartering Act
The king forced the colonist to provide food, hoursing, fuel and transportation for al the british soldiers against their will. -
Townshend Acts
A bunch of different laws that was passed by the British government that taxed the imported goods into the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Patriots were peacefully protesting against the british soldiers when they shot and killed one of the colonist boys, and four other colonist. -
Boston Tea Party
A protest by the colonist in which they threw 342 boxes of tea into the harbor because the king was taxing everything. (no taxation without representation) -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Four laws that were passed by the british parliament for punishment on massachusetts for dumping the tea in the harbor. -
Olive Branch Petition
The last thing that was put in place to try and prevent formal war. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord ( “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The first act of fighting in the American Revolution. The americans had the british cornered everywhere, the Americans won. -
Second Continental Congress
A meeting of different delegates from each or the thirteen colonies that united in the American Revolution. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet about getting independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic. -
Declaration of Independence
An act taken by all thirteen American colonies in declaring independence from British rule and ending the American Revolution. -
Articles of Confederation
A document that was established for the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
The Rebellion was a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts -
Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia Convention)
The delegates assembled in Philadelphia, when everyone arrived they shuttered the windows of the State House and swore secrecy so they could speak freely. They had gathered to revise the Articles of Confederation, by mid-June they decided to completely redesign the government.