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navaction Acts
The Navigation Acts were laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonists buy English goods and limited trade between the colonies and other countries -
Treaty of paris
The document that ended the war between the British and the French that was fought over the Ohio River Valley. This treaty ended French power in North America and expanded British territory -
Proclamation
The colonists were made about this because they couldn't go West of Appalachian Mountains. This kinda good for them because they continue fighting. -
Sugar Act
This time they lowered the price of the Sugar Act from 6 pence to 3 pence. -
Writs of assistance
colonists were smuggling goods, so they won't have to pay the British they're money . -
Stamp Act
The British Weren't making enough money so the passed the stamp Act so that it would effect everyone and not just the Merchants. -
Quartering Act
The British want to make sure the colonists are doing what they are supposed to do by sending 10,000 troops to the colonies. -
Stamp act congress
the colonies protested the stamp act and they had Newspapers take up they're cries they say "NO Taxation without representation!" -
Declaratory Act
The British take back the stamp Act and replace it with another one a year later. -
Townshend Act
They tax things as soon as something gets to the colonies and so the colonists have to pay for things and they won't know they were taxed. but they were wrong because the colonists found out and so they boycotted even more. -
Boston Massacre
Boston massacre wasn't really a massacre it was more like homo side but in the eyes of the colonists was a massacre. -
Tea Act
The British taxed the colonists by taxing the tea and so the colonists became mad. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea happened because the British taxed the colonists. -
Coercive act
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive act to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. -
First Continental Congress
that was a meeting by all the colonies except Georgia -
Second Continental Congress
This time the colonists that were fighting the British were requesting more men to fight the British and the Germans helping. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
the colonists in the first battle lost but they retreated and then they attacked the British while they were going back to Boston. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
the battle was Technical a win but was loss because the British forced the colonists out of Bunker Hill -
Olive Branch Petition
this was a Petition to see if they can still have peace and not war with Britain but the King said no -
Common Sense
the people in the colonies weren't using common sense as much as the British. -
Declaration of Independence
the Declaration of Independence was thing that the colonists came up with after the war.