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American Revolution

  • Navigation Acts of 1651

    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

    French and Indian War

    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 some Native American allies on both sides.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation of 1763

    This stated that people could not settle west beyond the appalachian mountains.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The acts that taxed sugar, mollases and other items.
  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act

    Parliaments authority in America was the same as it was in Britain.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    The act that was named afte Charles Townshend that raised tax revenue.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    An incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
  • 1st Contenintal Congress

    1st Contenintal Congress

    All of the colonies except Georgia sent Delagates. New York and Pennsylvania sent delegates with instructions to seek resolution with England unlike others.
  • The Intolerable Acts

    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

    Boston Tea Party

    The sons of liberty were angry about the taxes being created without it being talked about first.
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    The second Congress managed the colonial war effort and moved incremental towards independence, adopting the Declaration of Independence.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    A tax put on the transferring of certain documents