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War between France England for control over North America. It was called the French and Indian War. -
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
Which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. In response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
The Boston Massacre marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly. -
On the night of 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were destroyed in Boston Harbour, an event that has gone down in history as the Boston Tea Party. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
The First Congress started a boycott of British goods and a Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The sway the Thirteen Colonies toward independence with his persuasive and passionate case for separation from Britain. -
The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain. -
The written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
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