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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first act where the colonists were directly taxed, and this infuriated the Americans of course. The Stamp Act basically said that all documents, papers, etc. of the sort must have a stamp on it to be legal. -
Salutary Neglect
Is an american term for the 1770's through the 1780's time period. Making it so that there is no stricked law enforcements for the american collinies in those years. -
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American Revolution
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Boston Massacre
5 colonists were killed, from built up tention in the american collonists. The tention started when royal troops apeared in Massachusetts. -
Boston Tea Party
When American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor. "The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (the Townshend Acts) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company (also the called English East India Company)" -
The intollerable acts
THe Intolerable laws was a serize of punnative laws that were passed by the brittish parlement. these laws. They were meant to restrict the colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
Hundreds of British troops had come from Boston to nearby Concord to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington -
Surrender at Yorktown
British general Cornwallis was against French general Marquis de Lafayette and General George Washington. French admiral DeGrasse was commander of the French naval fleet and defeated the British navy, thus prohibiting them from entering Chesapeake Bay and giving aid and resources to Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was a document, signed by the colonists leaders. Ended the Revolutionaly war between great brittan and the united states.
