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French and Indian war
This war between Britain and France ended with the victorious British deeply in debt an demanding more revenue from the colonies. -
Sons and daughters of liberty
colonist tried to fight back by imposing non-importation agreements -
Townshed act
These taxes were imposed to help make the colonial officials independent of the colonist and included on glass, paper, and tea. -
The bosten tea party
The colonist decided they would see none of the tea leave the ship.A group of colonist dressed as American Indians boarding the ship at night and threw the tea over board into the harbor, running all of it -
The first coninetal congress
In this congress 55 delegates representing 12 of the 13 colonies—Georgia withheld—argued back and forth as to whether or not they should separate from Britain for killing their people, firing cannons on their cities, closing down Boston's sea port, and, primarily, imposing the intolerable acts. -
The battles of lexington and concord
It came soon enough. Paul Revere's ride on April 19, 1775 was to announce the approach of British soldiers to stamp out colonist resistance in the towns of Lexington and Concord -
The second continetal congress
It was time to do something. The continental congress gathered again in May of 1775, where thy would become and remain the government of the colonies until the end of the revolutionary war -
The Intolerable Act
The Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston until the Dutch East India company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. -
Currency act
Parliament argued that colonial currency had caused a devaluation harmful to British trade. -
Stamp act
This required tax stamps on many items and documents including playing cards, newspaper, marriage license.