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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Act, titled as An Act for increase of Shipping. By the Rump Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell, It authorized the Commonwealth to continue England's international trade to grow, and trade with its traveling colonists. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War also known as the Seven Years' War. landing into the North American territory we know today, the British Empire against the French, and yet each side was being supported by Native American tribes. At the start of the war, French colonies had a population of near 60,000 settlers, while compared with closely 2 million of the British colonies.The French were outnumbered and depended on the natives to help them. -
Quartering Act
The British parliamentary required american colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation stationed in other american colony towns or villages. -
Stamp Act
Parliament's first direct tax on American colonies, this act was to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, legal documents, dice, and apparently playing cards. -
Townshend Acts
A passed British Parliament that gave a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them afterwards, and killed a boy in the chaos of the massacre. Days worth of brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually ended in the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
An incident in which storage of teas that belong to the British were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots, most disguised as Indians. -
Intolerable Acts
laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were to punish Massachusetts colonists for their boycotting of the defiance in reaction to changes in taxes by the British. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize american rebels. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress appointed ambassadors, issued paper currency, raising the Continental Army through conscription, and appointing generals to lead the army -
Olive Branch Petition
Adopted by Congress, the Olive Branch Petition was sent to the King as a last resort to prevent war from breaking out. The Petition emphasized their rights as British citizens and demanded more rights to freedom. -
Common Sense
Showing the need for independence from Great Britain to people in the Colonies, writing as clearly and persuasively as he cold, Thomas Paine wrote moral and political arguments to encourage people in the Colonies to fight for enlightened government rather than the king. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration's main purpose is to explain the colonists' right to revolution. Within it, it says that God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The main business of the government is to protect these rights. If a government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt. -
Articles of Confederation
The document was to establish the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Britain.This allowed the document to have the power to declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors, and manage relations with Native Americans. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's weakness of the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
This addressed the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. They made compromise such as, Electoral College, Three-Fifths Compromise, and Compromise on the importation of slaves.