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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
A war between great Britain and French that lasted 7 years over land and ended in the treaty of paris -
Navigation Acts (1763)
A series of laws that was passed by the British Parliament that put restrictions on trade with other places around the world -
Stamp Act
The act that was anything that was printed on paper needed a stamp -
Quartering Act
When the British soldiers could come in peoples houses and live there for the war and people couldn't do or say anything -
Townshend Acts
When the British taxed the imported goods from America colonies -
Boston Massacre
When a group of British soldiers and americans were arguing and a British soldier shot an american boy and resulted into a conflict between the americans and the british -
Boston Tea Party
When the colonist dumped the british tea in the boston harbor against the taxes -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
After the Boston tea party british put laws against the colonist from cooperating in trade -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
When British troops marched to concord to start war -
Second Continental Congress
A meeting of the important people from the 13 colonies about the revolutionary war -
Olive Branch Petition
The final petition the colonist tried before going to war during the american revolution -
Common Sense
A book that was written by Thomas Paine about the freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
The paper that stated that the 13 colonies become free from great britain and their rules from the king and became the United States of America -
Articles of Confederation
A document that made the government of the US after they declared freedom from Great Britain -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
was an American soldier who was a farmer and a famous for being a leader in the revolutionary war -
Constitutional Convention
In Pennsylvania state house a federal convention where the delegates wrote the draft of the constitution