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The Navigation Acts were acts by Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. It enabled Britain derive profit from the colonies. -
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger war, known as the Seven Years’ War, fought between Britain and France over New World territories. -
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies.it was a major factor in making the colonists mad and caused many them of to believe in “No taxation without representation.” -
It was a confrontation that took place in Boston in which nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them. It marked the moment at which tensions between Britain and the colonists became deadly. -
It was a law that gave all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India company. By doing this, it undercut the business of local merchants, which angered the colonists. -
It was a political protest in which angry American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor, because they were mad that Britain has imposed “taxation without representation.” -
They were a series of punitive laws such as the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. They were aimed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
It was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies. It was one big step closer to declaring America’s independence from Britain. -
This was the first military engagement of the Revolutionary war. It was very important, as it marked the beginning of the war. -
It was a meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies. It was where they formally adopted the Declaration of Independence. -
It was where all of the delegates agreed on it. They agreed to sever political ties from Britain. -
This was a battle where America had a decisive victory. It was a turning point in the war and greatly boosted American morale. -
It was the harshest winter, specifically because if weather, bad living conditions, shortages of food, blankets and clothing, and disease. Despite this, it was the time where the American forces became a true fighting unit. -
It was written to state the main laws/ controls of America. It was important because it started them getting a set government. -
This battle was won by the Americans. It was the battle that ended the revolutionary war. -
39 of the 55 delegates signed the document (many refused to sign it before because it lacked a bill of rights). It was important because it solidified the beliefs that America was built upon.