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Navigation Acts
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
Stamp Act
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act
British sent soldiers who were to be “quartered” in housing provided by the colonists. -
Townshend acts
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles -
French-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. -
Tea Act / Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773 protestors dumped tea into Boston Harbor -
The Quartering Act ll
Response to the Boston Tea Party the British sent more troops to Boston. -
The Intolerable Acts
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
Lexington & Concord
the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is published -
The Declaration of Independence
Formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades -
Constitutional Convention
Address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.