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Navagation Acts
A series of laws that restircted the use of foreign ships for trade between each country and Britain. -
French and Indian War ends
The french and Inian war ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
It borebad colonist from settling west of the Appalchian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
This law actually lowered the tax rates that colonists paid when they purchased items, such as molasses and sugar. just felt like a new expense. -
Stamp Act of 1765
This law required many written or printed items, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards, to be produced on special paper stamped in Great Britain. In order to purchase this stamped paper, colonists had to pay a tax. -
Quartering Act
This act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Sons of Liberty
An organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies -
Declaratory Act of 1766
A declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Townshed Acts
A series of acts to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain. -
Boston Massacare
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Townshed Act Repealed
The Townshed acts were repeald except for tea. -
First Committee of Correspondence
The American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
Granted the British East India Company tea a monopoly of tea sales. -
Boston Tea Party (Sons of Liberty)
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
Were passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Included 3 major acts. -
First Continental Congress
The first continental congress met at the Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere in 1775 road his horse to Lexington to warn the minute men that the British were coming for war. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775.
