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Navigation Act
Encouragement of Trade required all European goods bound for America to be shipped through England first. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France -
George III became the king of England
He became King after his grandfather died. He was supposed to be king after his dad died but he was only 12 years old therefore his grandpa took over. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
The Bill of Rights
It is basically a section in the Declaration of Independence that explains the first 10 amendments. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies,then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
The United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
