Navigational acts

Navigational Acts

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  • Navigational Acts

    Navigational Acts
    A trade law that the British Parliament passed. These trade laws prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britian.

  • French and Indian War Begins

    French and Indian War Begins
    A conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America , lasting from 1754 to 1763.

  • French and Indian War Ends

    French and Indian War Ends
    French and Indian War ended. Britian won, but came out in a huge debt.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Colonist had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed materials.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Ordered the British navy to close the port of Boston. Protested a tax on tea, a group of colonist dumped a large amout of tea into the Boston Harbor.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    Protested the treatment of Boston, every colony was there except Georgia.

  • Battle at Lexington

    Battle at Lexington
    British and American soldiers agreed to meet and exchange gun fire in Lexington, Massachusetts.

  • Second Continental Congress, and Declaration of Independance

    Second Continental Congress, and Declaration of Independance
    Written by Thomas Jefferson, firmly based on the ideas of John Locke and The Enlightenment.

  • French Join the Americans

    French Join the Americans
    French and Americans come together,

  • Article of the Confederation

    Article of the Confederation
    First plan for government.

  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention
    Group of people that wrote the Constitution.