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Navigation Acts
only English ships could bring goods into England and the North American colonies could only export its goods to England -
French-Indian War
Because of the French-Indian War England owed huge debt. England goes from salutary neglect to mercantilism -
Stamp Act
required colonists to pay for stamps and paper goods -
Quartering Act
colonists were required to house British soldiers -
Townshend Acts
many acts that taxed on goods in the colonies (stamp act) -
Boston Massacre
began as a fight between American colonists and a British soldier and soon become a bloody massacre -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists protested taxation without representation by dumping 342 chests of tea in the Boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
5 laws that the British made to get power back from the AMerican colonists after the Boston Tea Party -
Second Continental Congress
meeting of delegates to declare independence from Britain after the Revolutionary War -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (“The Shot Heard Around the World”)
battles that began the Revolutionary War because British troops marched to Concord to take away weapons to prevent a rebellion -
Olive Branch Petition
a petition where the colonists said they would be loyal to the king and exercise the rights as citizens of Britain to avoid going to war with Britain -
Common Sense
pamphlet written by Thomas Paine about independence from Britain -
Declaration of Independence
adopted by the Second Continental Congress, giving rights to citizens and declaring independence -
Articles of Confederation
the first constitution of the 13 original colonies -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
a revolt against the state governments attempt to tax people -
Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia Convention)
meeting called to revise Articles of Confederation but instead wrote the Declaration of Independence
