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Salutary Neglect
British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. -
Navigation Act 1
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Navigation Acts
British Acts primarily designed to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain. -
Navigation Act 2
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Navigation Act 3
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French and Indian War
the American phase of the Seven Years' War -
Albany Plan of Union
a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
Stamp Act
British tax on Paper -
Writs of Assistance
Search Warrant -
Pontiac's Rebellion
A war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes -
Proclemation of 1763
A royal proclemation that forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Commitees of correspondence
Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies -
Sugar Act
American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament -
Quatering Act
two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Sons of Liberty
Organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Non Importation Association
Reaction to the Stamp Act (1765) and the Townshend Acts (1767), colonial nonimportation associations were organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants to boycott English goods. -
Townshend Acts
were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Edenton Tea Party
political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British -
Tea Act
The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Contenental Congress
second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Lexington & Concord
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. Started the American Revolution -
Decleration of Independance
A decleration that announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen states