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Navigation Acts
This declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the colonies could only export its commodities -
committees of Correspondence
This was a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London -
Proclamation of 1763
prohibited American colonist to settle on the new lands acquired from the French and Indian war -
End of Salutary Neglect
This policy effectively ended After the French and Indian war.And is a main cause of the American Revolution -
Sugar Act
Retained a high duty of foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the import of all foreign rum -
Stamp Act
An act to raise money to pay for the army tax on all legal and official papers and publications -
Sons of Liberty
Were a loosely organized clandestine, political organization active in the 13 colonies to advance the rights of colonist and fight taxation from the British. -
Townshend Act
To pay expenses the government initiated tax on glass,lead,paint,paper and tea -
Boston Massacre
When a British soldier shot into the crowd which led others to do the same killing several american colonist -
Boston Tea party
A group of colonist sneaked onto a boat and dumped boxes of tea into the Boston river as a protest -
Intolerable Acts
Was a group of four acts: Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Quartering Act -
First Continental Congress
Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies held in Philadelphia -
Olive branch petetion
Was sent to the king as a last attempt to prevent war from being declared -
second continental congress
Was a meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies that united in support of the American revolution and the Revolutionary war -
Lexington and Concord
Was a battle which started the American war of independence also called ¨ Shot heard ´round the world¨ -
Patrick Henry ¨ Give me Liberty of Give me Death¨ Speech
Was a speech from Patrick Henry he gave in the second Virginia Convection to persuade the other delegates -
Declaration of Independence
is the founding document of the United States which declared them away from England -
Thomas Paine ¨ Common Sense¨
Is a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped sway the colonies toward independence with his persuasion