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Navigation Act
all European goods bound for America (or other colonies) to be shipped through England first. -
George III became king of Great Britain
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French and Indian War
War was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, A chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War. -
Stamp Act
Imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. It destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
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First Continental Congress
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First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The Declaration of Independence
The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. -
The United States Constitution
There was 7 articles and 27 amendments. 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. -
The Bill of Rights
Is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add certain safeguards of democracy
