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The French and Indian War began over whether or not the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire. -
The Navigation Acts is series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances. -
The Stamp Act was first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. -
The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
it was a protest of a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea. -
they were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
The Olive Branch Petition was made by Congress to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
the battle of lexington and concord started the american revolution hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache -
the representative government that brought the American colonies together as they got ready for their revolution. -
A pamphlet that thomas paine wrote about independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
the formal proclamation that the colonies would now be an independent country separate from Great Britain. -
the first constitution of the 13 independent American colonies. -
Protesting of the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system. -
a formal meeting held for the purpose of creating a constitution for the United States.