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Navigation Acts of 1651
A series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. -
French and Indian War (Beginning)
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military people from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Stated that people could not settle west beyond the appalachian mountains -
Sugar Act
The acts that taxed things like, sugar, mollases and other things. -
The Stamp act
The act that was created ttax and document that has to be transported -
Declaratory act.
Parliaments authority in America was the same as it was in Britain. -
Townshend Acts
The act that was named afte Charles Townshend that raised tax revenue. -
Townshend Acts
To raise revenues to pay the saleries of judges and governers. -
The Boston Massacre
An incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
The first contenintal congress
All of the colonies except Georgia sent Delagates. New York and Pennsylvania sent delegates with instructions to seek resolution with England unlike the others. -
The intolerable acts.
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor -
Boston tea party
The sons of liberty were angry about the taxes being created without it being talked about first -
2nd continental congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Stamp Act
A tax put on the transferring of certain documents
