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French-Indian War
was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire -
Navigation Acts
were acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
Stamp Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America -
Quartering Act
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest -
Intolerable Acts
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America -
Articles of Confederation
were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. -
Constitutional Convention
took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
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