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The Navigation Act
Many of several acts of Parliment between 1651 and 1847 that were designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain. This resulted in all colonial imports ,except wine and salt, having to pass through England before they could be shipped to the colonies. Certain colonial products could be shipped only to England. -
French and Indian Wars
The French and Incian Wars were a series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America betwwen 1754 and 1763. The British won the war which caused an outburst of pride in both England and the English colonies. It also soured many British military and political leaders' opinions about the American colonies. It was a costly war for the British. -
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Prelude to the American Revolution
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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union is also called the Albany Plan. It was a proposal from Benjamin Franklin for a constitutional plan that would bring all of the colonies under one central government. This inspired some sections of the Articles of Confederation and helped to unify the United States. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued after the end of the Seven Years' War by King George III after Great Britain aquisitioned the North American French territory. This closed off the frontier for expansion for the colonies. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was passed by the British Parliment in 1764. It raised duties and taxes, on foreign refined sugar that was imported by the colonies. This gave the British sugar growers a monopoly over the sugar growers in the West Indies on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Its impact was that it left Parliment in debt so it repealed the act. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. This impacted the colonies by lowering taxes on imports from England. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
The repeal of the Stamp Act was a recall and removal of the stamp act because the stamp act caused the Parliment to lose money. thus, they were in debt. the impact was that parliment needed to find a way to make money. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. Its impact was it added duties to paper, glass, and other imports from England. -
Boston Massacre
This was known as the Incident on King Street by the British,which was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. the impact of this massacre was that this was the cause of the revolutionary War -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The members of the Sons of Liberty threw all the tea from England into the Boston Harbor. The impact of this was it started a boycott of tea and it lowered the price and tax on this import to the American colonies. -
Coercive Acts
This was a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. its impact was that it closed the boston ports until the debt of the Boston Tea Party was paid off -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.This put an end to the Coercive Acts. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Soon after, warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. its impact was that it was the group of men that wrote the Declaration of independence. -
Declaration of Independence
is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Its impact was that it was the official sserpartion of the colonies from English control.