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Navigation Acts
a series of laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies -
French-Indian War
England owed huge debt. Change from salutary neglect to mercantilism -
Stamp Act
A tax put on the American colonies by the British in 1765. It said they had to pay a tax on all sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents. -
Quartering Act
Act of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food -
Townshed Acts
refer to a series of acts put on the colonists by the British -
Boston Massacre
The moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly. Patriots argued the event was the massacre of people perpetrated by the British Army, but loyalists argued that it was an unfortunate accident. -
Boston Tea Party
Result of “taxation without representation”, Britain was unfairly taxing American colonists to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
Consisted of 4 acts of measures meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
Kicked off the Revolutionary War, The British fired first but fell back then the colonists returned the volley, this was the “shot heard ‘round the world” -
Second Continental Congress Meets
meeting of delegates from each of the thirteen American colonies. These delegates served as the government during the Revolutionary War -
Olive Branch Petition
assured the king that the colonists remained loyal subjects, not seeking independence, but attempting only to redress their grievances, signed by 48 members of congress -
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
A 47 page pamphlet written advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
Adopted by the Continental Congress, announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
Served as the first constitution of the United States, officially established the government of the union of the thirteen states -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
A convention that took place so delegates could rewrite the constitution and decide how America should be governed
