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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts only allowed English ships to carry goods to England, and the colonies of North America could only export their commodities. This act caused anger to many colonists and even made them smuggle. -
French-Indian War
The French-Indian War was between Great Britain and France. Great Britain and France fought over who was going to have strong power in North America. France had the colonist and the Indian allies on their side when the fought the British. -
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Stamp Act
American colonists were taxed and required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used like commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, licenses for marriage, diplomas, pamphlets, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act
This act required the colonies to provide shelter, food, transportation to the British forces. The colonists didn't want to provide for the British force because they didn't trust them. -
Townshend Act
The British parliament passed a number of laws covering the American colonies. They levied new taxes and stripped away some of the colonists' privileges, including the following: new taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea imports. -
Boston Massacre
It all started when a mob attacked a British loyalist. The British loyalist then shot and murdered a boy. After that a riot occured. -
Boston Tea Party
Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown by American patriots posing as Mohawk Indians from ships into Boston Harbor. The American patriots did this because they were angry at the fact that they were imposing “taxation without representation”. -
Intolerable Acts
The British Parliament passed 5 punitive laws. In response to reforms in taxation by the British Government, the laws were intended to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of the Tea Party protest. The laws were Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act,Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
British troops were heading to Concord, Massachusetts to steal military supplies but Paul Revere and William Dawes warned Adams and Hancock to get the Minutemen ready to fight. -
Second Continental Congress
It took on a government's regular roles, naming ambassadors, issuing paper money, raising the Continental Army by conscription, and appointing army leadership generals. -
Olive Branch Petition
The colonists' last effort to avoid going to war during the American Revolution with Britain. It was a document that assured the colonists their allegiance to the crown and claimed their privileges as British citizens. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's pamphlet was an advocate to gain independence from England and to create a democratic republic. -
Declaration of Independence
Their objectives were to mobilize the forces, gain foreign allies, and declare the formation of a new country. The D.O.I also said that people had the right to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All men were created equally and that people had the right to defend their rights were also in the D.O.I. -
Articles of Confederation
The object of the Articles of Confederation was to plan and establish a confederation-some kind of government-the framework of the new government. Unfortunately there were many issues with the Articles of Confederation. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Under the Articles of Confederation, it revealed the weakness of the government and prompted many, including George Washington, to call for strengthening the federal government to put down potential uprisings. -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was to determine how America would be governed. Although the Convention was officially called to amend the current Confederation Articles. They addressed the problems with the Articles of Confederation.
