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Navigation acts
A few laws passed to restrict colonial trade. -
Townshend Act
Taxes imposed on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Quartering act
British soldiers were to be housed in colonists houses. -
French and Indian war.
A war that lasted 7 years. The American colonies fought the French. -
Stamp act
The British charged the colonists for everything paper -
Boston massacre
British soldiers shot at an unarmed crowd. They killed 5 people. -
Boston tea party
Colonists threw tea overboard in the Boston harbor to protest the taxes. -
Common sense
A pamphlet by Thomas Paine -
Intolerable act (coercive acts)
laws passed that punished the colonies for the Boston tea party. -
Olive branch petition
The last attempt at preventing war. -
Battle of Lexington and concord
The first fight of the revolutionary war -
Declaration of independence.
A document that declared Americas independence. -
Articles of confederation
An agreement of the nations first form of government. -
Articles of confederation
An agreement of the nations first form of government. -
Second continental congress
meeting of the 13 colonies in support of the revolutionary war. -
Daniel Shays rebellion
A armed revolution due to a debt crisis. -
Constitutional Convention
Established the federal government