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Navigation Act
The Navigation Act is were the law guaranteed them a place were the would sell all their raw materials to England. -
Molasses Act
British law passed that taxes molasses. Sugar imported into the North American colonies from non- British countries -
Fort Necessity
George Washington set up the Fort Necessity and it was an outpost for the battle -
Sugar Act
Would lower the price, and encourage more people to buy
Encourage Colonists to stop smuggling
It also allowed officers to seize accused smugglers goods without going to court -
Stamp Act
Internal Act is an act that added a small tax on all printed materials like Newspaper, Wills, Playing Cards, and Documents, etc -
Declaratory Act
Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for British colonies in all cases -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act was an External tax (tax on imported goods) Glass, Lead, Paper, Tea, and Paint -
Boston Massacre
The Massacre was the red coats and colonists fighting because the colonists were throwing rocks and ice at the red coats. One of the red coats fell and his gun shot so then all the other red coats started firing. -
First Continental Congress
colonial legislatures empowered delegates to attend a Continental Congress which would set terms for a boycott -
Generals Gage takes over Boston
he took over the governor position of Massachusetts, replacing the unpopular Thomas Hutchinson -
Intolerable Act
It was a series of laws passed by the British Parliment. -
Administration of Justice
British officials charged with capital offenses had to be tried in another colony of England -
Quebec Act
Was procedures for governance -
Quartering Act
A government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River -
Paul Revere's ride
Revere and Dawes rode to Lexington, a town east of Concord, spreading the news - “The British are coming!!”
A British Patrol would later capture Revere, and Dawes would turn back. The message is carried to Concord by Samual Prescott -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
It was at the North Bridge that Colonist engage in Guerrilla Warfare, chasing the British all the way back to Boston
By the time the redcoats reached Boston, 174 wounded and 73 dead
18 Colonist wounded -
Fort Ticonderoga
built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York -
Second Continental Congress
established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief -
Battle of Bunker Hill
After seeing this and forming a plan, the British attacked the next day
Redcoats assembled at the foot of Breed’s Hill, with fixed bayonets, and charged the hill
The Militia was low on ammunition, and so Colonel Wiliiiam Presscott gave the order, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” -
Olive Branch Petition
to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec
During the siege, disease and the harsh winter weakened Arnold's forces. Despite their best efforts, the ineffectiveness of the siege coupled with the arrival of British reinforcements forced the Patriots to retreat from the city -
Washington takes Boston
American General George Washington had the artillery he needed to force the British out of Boston -
Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III
Jefferson was outraged that the king would hire Hessian mercenaries to suppress British subjects. -
DOI is signed
at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia 2 future presidents signed it