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Navigation Acts
Declared that only English Ships would be able to bring goods into England and North America. -
French and Indian War Ends
England and her colonies defeated France and Native American allies. Britain thought colonists should pay their share of war cost. -
Stamp Act
Tax placed on colonists by Great Britain and parliament. The Act said they had to pay a tax on all sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents. -
Boston Massacre
A deadly riot between American colonist and British Soldier that quickly escalated to a bloody slaughter. -
Tea Act
The objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British and stop illegally smuggled tea; while convincing colonists to buy East India Company Tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Sons of Liberty throw boxes of tea into the harbor in protest to Tea Act of 1773. -
Coercive / Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from each colony in Philadelphia. The men discussed how to respond to Britain's actions. -
Lexington and Concord
First Military engagements of the war. -
Second Continental Congress
A second meeting of delegates in Philadelphia shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, succeeding the First Continental Congress. -
Declaration of Independence Adopted
The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress. -
Battle of Saratoga
Battles were a turning point in the Revolution for America; and led France to sign a treaty of alliance and support the United States. -
Winter at Valley Forge
General George Washington's Continental Army set up camp at Valley Forge right outside Philadelphia surviving through a brutal winter. -
Battle of Yorktown
Britain’s loss and surrender at Yorktown opens the door for the Treaty of Paris, ultimately ending the war. -
U.S. Constitution is Written
Written at the constitutional convention to create a government with enough power to act on a national level, but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk. -
U.S. Constitution Adopted
The document to be adopted when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution.
