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French and Indian War
Fought between the colonies of British America and New France, both ides supported by military units from parent countries Great Britain and France. 1756 escalated to a world wide conflict. -
Stamp Act
A direct tax imposed by the British Parliment specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. Theses printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops staioned in North America after the British victory in the French and Indian -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed in the beginning of 1767 by Parliment, for British colonies in America. Named after Charles Townshend who proposed the program. The purpose of the acts was to raise money in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quatering Act. -
Boston Massacare
British army killed five civilians and injured 6 others. British troops had been stationed in Boston to protect British officials that were trying to enforce unpopular acts Parliment had created. -
Tea Act
It’s purpose was to rid the financially troubled British East India Company of it’s excess of tea. Colonists got angry because tea was one of their main beverages. This act caused the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed up as native americans and went to the Boston Harbor to rebel British law and dump all the tea into the harbor. This was a act to show the resistance of the Tea Act and the anger the colonists had. -
Intolerable Acts
They were a set of acts that replaced the repleaded Stamp Act. They included many strange and ridiculous acts that many people didn't like. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotmy (present day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Second Continental Congress
It was the making of the Declaration of Independence. Rid the country of the Articles of Confedarations, made the government stronger. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
A pamplet written by Thomas Paine, first puplished anonymously. It had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American History. It talked about American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of seeking independence was still undecided.