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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonist buy English goods and limited trade between trade between the colonies and other countries. -
Writs of Assistance
This was the act that said you had to have a warrant to search through a persons belongings or go through any home of theirs. -
Proclamation Act Of 1763
The Proclamation acts were when American Colonists werent allowed west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a revenue raising act. -
Quartering Act
This was the Act that stated if a soldier showed up at your doorstep you had to let hi live with you, and you had to feed them, until it was time fore then to leave. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was the first congress of America and consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise -
Townshend Acts
These were a series of acts that the parliament passed. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was when the 5 colonist were shot by soldiers, and the people had been causing a riot. -
Tea Act
The Tea act is where a tax was placed on tea by the British Parliament. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when colonists snuck onto a ship and threw all of the tea over board and the harbors water turned brown due to all of the tea. -
Coersive Acts
The Coersive Acts were a series of laws relation to Britains colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament in 1774 -
First Continental Congress
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
he Second Continental congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was a battle where were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle at Bunker hill the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
Olive Branch Petition
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The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. -
Declaratory Act
This act was a declaration by the British parliament to repeal the stamp act. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second continental congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was the act that starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp