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Navigation Acts
Any good traded by the colonies had to be carried on an English or Colonial Ship.
All goods exported by colonies first had to pass through England and be taxed.
Specific goods could only be sent to England. -
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French and Indian war
It was a war between the French and Indians to gain control of land. When it ended they got control of the Mississippi River and parts of Canada. -
The Proclamation of 1763
This ment that some people couldnt settel west of the aplmation mountains. -
The Sugar Act
All sugar and molasses coming into the colonies would be taxed.
They made this act to help pay the British troops during the French and Indian War. -
The Stamp Act
Printed items required to have a stamp saying tax had been paid
Such as: Newspaper, Pamphlets, Licenses, Legal Documents, and Playing Cards
They ended up taking this act away in 1766. -
Declaratory Act
Known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, -
Townshend Acts
They started to tax more things such as, Imported glass, Lead, Paint, Paper, and Tea.
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Boston Massacre
In which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Son of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of dissidents that originated in the North American British colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. -
Tea Act
Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Bostan Tes Party
The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. -
Intolerable Acts
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Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Lecington and Concord
in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston.
