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From 1754-1756 a major war was fought in the American Colonies named the French and Indian war. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the British got territory in North America as the result. -
The Navigation Acts declared what England and its colonies could bring in, send out, and exported. -
The Stamp Act was an act where every American colonist had to pay taxes on every piece of the printed paper that they used. -
The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide housing for the British soldiers because they were protecting the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws that made the colonists pay taxes on things such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
On March 5, 1770, British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against increased tea prices in which they dumped tea into Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts are also known as the Coercive Acts was a series of laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Olive branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord took place on April 19, 1775. This Battle was very small but it is important because it was the main reason the American Revolutionary War took place. -
Delegates from each colony met in Philadelphia and talked about the Intolerable Acts, which was Boston's punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet named "Common Sense" that advocated independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies. -
The D.O.I is a formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain. -
The colonies knew that they needed some form of official government that united the 13 colonies so they came up with the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was the first Constitution of the US that united the colonies. -
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787. Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices. -
The Constitutional Convention was where they gathered to discuss the Articles of confederation. After some time it was decided that a new constitution was needed.