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Navigation Acts
A series of Acts passed in the English Parliament. Caused resentment in the colonies and were a major contributing factor to the American Revolution. -
French & Indian War
was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. Was an outburst of pride in both England and the colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains after they fought for that land. -
Sugar Act
Taxed molasses and sugar. They reacted by boycotting and influenced to to start smuggling more sugar and molasses. -
Stamp Act
Was viewed as the highest revenue building tax. They protested about everything. -
Quartering Act
required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. The first also required them to feed the troops. -
Townshend Act
Tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. The colonists felt the issue regarding the taxation of goods. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. Meaning, they were in complete authority to make binding laws on the American Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Colonists were largely outraged at what they saw as a vicious attack on unarmed civilians. -
Committees of Correspondence
Network of communication for passing along news. Rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
Tea Act
An act of the parliament of Britain. The Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. They taxed tea. -
The Intolerable Acts
Port is closed several limited town meetings. Started forming molasses. -
First Continental Congress
A group of people who came together. Looking for unified responses from Britain. -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Battle of Lexington
British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
Battle of bunker hill
The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. They came back with more people and defeated them. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
