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Navigation Acts
declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
Proclamation of 1763
prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
Committees of Correspondence
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End of Salutary Neglect
The end of salutary neglect is one of the main causes of the American Revolution. This policy effectively ended after the French and Indian War in 1763, when the British made the decision to reinforce the Navigation Acts, other trade restrictions and regulations, and place taxes on the colonies. -
Sugar Act
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was most likely organized in the summer of 1765 as a means to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765. Their motto was, “No taxation without representation.” The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering, 1774. Library of Congress. -
Stamp Act
sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. -
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Townshend Acts
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.
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Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
Intolerable Acts
the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
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First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution.
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Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.
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Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. -
Lexington and Concord
Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence -
Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States.