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  • Navigation acts

    Navigation acts
    England began passing these navigation acts, these laws forced the colonists to sell to England even if they could get a better price elsewhere.
  • molasses act

    molasses act
    The Molasses Act was a British law passed in 1733 that taxed Molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North American colonies from non-british countries
  • fort ness

    fort ness
    Washington had built fort ness but was soon attackedby the french
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War began in 1756 and ended in 1763. The British wanted to takeover the frenches territory. The governor of Virginia sent a militia which was led by George Washington. The French and natives attacked for ness and Washington surrendered
  • Declatory acts

    Declatory acts
    started that parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "In all classes whatsoever"
  • townshend acts

    townshend acts
    By this point in the colonies, any British taxes angered colonists. Women started the doughters of liberty along with supported another boycott.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    March 15th, 1770 a fight occured between the bostains and the British soldiers. The angry mob of bostains was fired on. 5 people were dead with 3 injured.
  • administration of justice

    administration of justice
    British officials charge with a capital offences. They had to be tried in another colony or England.
  • Quebec acts

    Quebec acts
    permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first. This was to the house of British troops
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    In a warm September of 1774, 55 delegates gathered together to create a political body. these delegates named this political body the Continental Congress. They met in Phillidelphia with delegates from each of the 13th colonies except Georgia
  • sugar act

    sugar act
    in 1774 parliament passes the Sugar act. This new tax lowered the tax on molasses imported to the colonies.
  • General Cage takes over Boston

    General Cage takes over Boston
    The millitary governor General Thomas Gage, of Boston had order from the parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia.
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts
    They were 4 rules passed by the British parliament. intolerable means painful and unbearable.
  • quartering act

    quartering act
    permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first. This was to the house of British troops.
  • stamp act

    stamp act
    Patrick Henry VA house of burgesses the only sole and exclusive right and power to lay taxes on citizens. people boycotted and refused to buy British goods.
  • Paul Reveres Ride

    Paul Reveres Ride
    Dr Warren alerted Paul Revere and William Dawes, who were member of the Sons Of Liberty. Revere and Dawes rode to lexington, a town east of Concord spreading the new that "THE BRITISH ARE COMING,"
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    Due to Revere and Dawes warning, 70 minutemen were waiting for 700+ redcoats. relizing that they were badly outnumbered, the minutemen were about to break. An unkown shot was fired and both sides engaged. A Torry had told general Gage that the miltitia was hiding weapons at a farm.