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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
A war between England and France. Fighting over territory in the New World. England won the war but, owed a huge debt. Because of the debt England begins to tax the people in the colonies. -
Navigation Acts (1763)
Laws passed by British Parliament that to restrict trade between the colonies and other countries. -
Quartering Act
Colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel and transportation -
Stamp Act
American colonies by imposing a stamp with anything paper, newspapers and legal commercial governments. -
Townshend Act
Series of British acts of a parliament. Relating to the British colonies in America. -
Boston Massacre
A group of nine british soldiers killed three people from a crowd from a crowd who were abusing them. -
Boston Tea Party
American political and Mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Thrown from ships into the Boston Harbour by American Patriots. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
Series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
Express hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord. It was the start of the American War of Independence. -
Second Continental Congress
The step of declaring Americas Independence from Britain -
Declaration of Independence
Separation of the 13 North America British colonies from Great Britain. -
Common Sense
Independence from Great Britain to people in the thirteen colonies. political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. -
Articles of Confederation
A written document that established the functions of natural government of the United States after it declared independence -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.End of the American Revolutionary War. Although Massachusetts was the focal point of the crisis, other states -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.