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French and indian war
between France and Great Britain for supremacy in NC (cause colonial heavy taxation-led to American Revolution). -
Proclamation of 1763
issued by King George lll,following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America. -
Sugar act
Know as the American Revenue act was a revenue raising act passed by the parliament of Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
British laws placing a tax on printed colonial matter: Paper Product. -
Quartering Act
British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of British soldiers. -
Townshend Acts
Passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what is considered to be its historical rights. -
Boston Massacre
Violent confrontation between British troops and colonists. Cripus attacks first arf.am.to die,5 colonist murdered. -
Boston tea party
Protest by the son of Liberty against the British.Colonist dress up and indians and threw the tea overboard. -
Tea act
an effort to save the troubled enterprise the British passed the tea act in which it granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England -
Intolerable Acts
British laws in response to the boston tea party (took away colonist's civil rights) -
First Continental congress met
Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes. -
Shots heard round the world.
hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. -
Second continental crongress
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary war. -
Common sense
written by Thomas paine,that called for independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of independence
The continental congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of independence.
