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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
The war with British and French with the help of Native Americans -
Navigation Acts (1763)
Acts that England put to stop the colonies buying imported foreign goods -
Quartering Act (1765)
The colonists had to provide the british soldiers with food and housing -
Stamp Act (1765-1766)
An act where the British implemented a tax for a stamp that would be required for many printed materials -
Townshend Acts (1767-1768)
A series of acts that taxed goods imported into the American colonies -
Boston Massacre (1770)
A group of british soldiers shot 5 colonists in a crowd of people -
Boston Tea Party (1773)
A protest by the sons of liberty when they dumped tons of tea in the Boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) (1774)
The british passed acts to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The opening shot which began the first battle to the American Revolutionary war -
Second Continental Congress (1775)
A meeting of the 13 colonies that were united in the American Revolutionary war -
Olive Branch Petition (1775)
A last attempt to prevent war with England and the colonies -
Common Sense (1776)
A book written by Thomas Paine to talk about independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic -
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The United States Declaration of Independence is the document announcing that the colonies are now free from british rule -
Articles of Confederation (1777)
An agreement among the 13 colonies for its first frame of government -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion (1786-1787
A uprising in which several hundred men were forcing the supreme court to adjourn -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
Delegates arriving intending to draft a new constitution