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A long series of English laws on the Acts of Trade and Navigation that lasted from 1651 to 1760
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War between France and England. The war caused England to go bankrupt so they had to tax the colonies.
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The Stamp Act was an act in 1765 in which colonists had to but the British stamp on any printed materials. When they bought the stamps they had to buy them from Britain.
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In 1765 the British created the quartering act which stated that colonist had to allow British soldiers into their homes.
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In 1767 the British put a tax on common goods such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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A confrontation in 1770 when British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob.
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The event where colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor while protesting "No Taxation Without Representation".
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The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were laws made in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colony after what they did in the Boston Tea Party.
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These were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War within the towns of Lexington, Concord Lincoln, Mentomy, and Cambridge.
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A meeting of delegates from the thirteen colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
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A final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.
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A 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating Independence from Great Britain to the people of the thirteen colonies.
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It was the founding document of the United States which announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Great Britain.
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It was an agreement between the 13 original state of the USA that served as the 1st Constitution.
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Was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry.
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The Constitutional Convention was an event that took place in Pennsylvania that was held to decide how America was to be governed.
