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Enlightenment
It was the age of discovery -
Navigation Act of 1663
All of the goods that where going to America must go through Europe first. -
Boston Newsletter first published
The first newsletter formed by John Campbell was a single sheet of paper. -
Great Awakening
A series of religious revivals in the colonies. -
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death" spoken
Was part of a speach that was created to talk to the Virginia house of Burgesses. -
King George III Crowned
was heir to the thrown -
French And Indian War Begins
A battle between the french an British with the indians on the frenches side. -
Albany Plan of Union created
A proposal to unify the thirteen colonies created by Benjaman Franklin. -
Writs of Assestance Passed
An order made by court official to tell certain law enforcement to do a sertain thing. -
Proclomation of 1763 passed
Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appilacian Mountains. -
Sugar Act Passed
Parliment taxed all sugar going to the colonies. -
Currency Act Passed
Parliment orders colonists to stop printing their own money. -
Stamp Act Passed
This act made colonists pay taxes on every piece of paper they bought. -
Stamp act Passed
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Molasses Act Passed
Forced colonists to pay tax on every piece of paper they bought. -
Quartering Act
Allowed citizens the right not to house soldiers. -
Sons of Liberty formed
A group of patroits in the 13 colonies. It was a secrest society formed to protect their rights of colonists. -
Declaratory Act Passed
The act that repealed the stamp act. -
Townshend Act Passed
They were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers killed five colonial protesters in the street of Boston. -
Committees of Correspondence sends first Circular letter
Basically the first newspaper sent out -
Tea Act
Parliment allows the British East India Tea Company the only company allowed to import tea to the colonies -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists dumped the tea in the boston harbor in order to revolt because England raised taxes. -
Closing of all American Ports
British closed all American Ports becase of the Boston Tea party -
Intolerable Acts Passed
A series of laws ment to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
Quebec Act Passed
Parliment gives Canada controll over land claimed by Massachusetts -
First Continental Congress Meets
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall. -
Second Continental Congress begins
A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting after warfare in the American Revolution. -
British attack at Concord
The battle that kicked off the revelutionary war. -
Olive Branch Petition Issued
A letter to the king asking him to make up with the colonies, he refused to read it. -
The Crisis Published
A pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. -
Common Sense Published
A book based on common sense written by Thomas Paine. -
Declaration Of Independence Signed
Members of Congress decide to sign the Decleration of Independence. -
Letter of an American Farmer
A series of books published by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur. -
Minutemen Formed
Men Armed to protect their town, AKA a maitia.
