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Navigation Acts
The acts regulated colonists trade and enabled Britain to collect taxes. -
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French and Indian war
Britain and the French fought over land in the america. -
Proclamation of 1763
An act that kept the colonists form settling west of the colonies. -
Sugar Act
Kept the colonist form trading with anyone but Britain. It also put a tax on molasses -
Stamp Act
Put a tax on paper products and/or documents. -
Quartering Act
An act that made it so colonist have to house and feed soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
The act said that it would repeal the stamp act but Britain could tax the colonies whenever they wanted. -
Townsend Act
A tax on glass, lead, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Some drunk colonists one night go out and through rocks at British soldiers. The soldiers didn't know what to do so they shot and killed 5 colonists. -
Committees of Correspondence
They got the colonies together and against the British. -
Tea Act
Put a tax on tea, tea was the favorite drink of the colonist and Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty dressed like Indians then got on a tea ship and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
An act that closed the Boston ports, if a colonist was though of a crime they were shipped to Britain for trial, and made a huge tax on all products the colonists. -
First Continental Congress
This was a group of anti-British colonists that meet to talk about what to do about Britain. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
These battles were the first battles of the revolutionary war. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Patriots surrounded Boston But were overwhelmed by the British. -
Second Continental Congress
They order George Washington to create a Continental Army. -
Tomas Pain's Common Since
Tomas wrote to the people of the colonies to fight back against Britain.
