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Navigation acts
The Navigation Act 1660 (passed on 13 September) added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's Act: ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain And France known as the seven years' War. The French and Indian War began in the 1754 and ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America. But disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the wars' expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately the American Revolution -
Declaratory act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar act
A law passed by the British parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
It was Viewed and seen as the highest revenue building tax. The Tax collectors were hated from collecting the taxes and the colonists were very angry so they tarred and feathered them. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Was a protest group who helped organize the boycott groups. -
Querenting act
The colonists had to host 1,500 soldiers and provide them with food ,water,clean clothes and bedding. The colonists refused to do this and the soldiers had to sleep on their ships -
Townshend act
There are now taxes on glass,lend,paper,paint and tea there are taxes on everything that is important or needed, all it did was bring more boycotts and more protests -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committees of correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society. -
The tea act
Tea Act of 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea party was when the sons of liberty attacked the British ships that had tea that was being taxed and the colonists did not want to pay. The sons of liberty were dressing up like Indians and destroying and throwing tea overboard the ships. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
The battle of Bunker Hill
The patriots Surrounded Boston on every side except Charleston The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle -
Second Continental congress
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. -
Thomas Paines Common sense
Thomas Paine
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
First Continental congress
First Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
