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French and Indian War
The English abd French battled for colonial domination in North America. the English win, but it costs them significantly putting them in debt.Started in 1756 and ended in 1763. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was parliments first attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. Britian was in major debt from the French and Indian war and needed to tax people. -
Townshed Acts
Serisof laws that placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, papers, and tea. Colonists were outraged by this. -
The Boston Massacre
The shooting of five american colonists by british troops. Deepened american distrust of the british military presense in the colonies. -
Tea Act
American colonists saw this law as yet another means of taxation without representation. This situation led to the Boston Tea party -
The Boston Tea Party
American colonists dressed as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three british ships and dumped 342 whole crates of british tea into the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws in response to the Boston Tea party. Impartial administration of justice act, Massachusetts Bay regulatory act, Boston Port act, Quartering act, Quebec act. -
First Continental Congress
Group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all but Georgia). They came together to act together in response to the intolerable act. -
The battles of Lexington/Concord
First shots fired between american and british troops (shot herd round the world). -
Second Continental Congress
Met in 1775, right when the revolutionary war had started.Things were gong badly. so they created the continental army. later they came up withe ideas of the Declaration of Independence, the articles of confederation, and the marine corps. -
Thomas Paines Common Sense
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. First work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
