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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) 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.
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French and Indian War ends 1763
French and Indian war began in 1754
One result of the French and Indian War was that England: reduced colonial taxes wanted the colonies to help pay for the war gave the colonies their freedom erased all colonial dissatisfactions.
Result: British Victory; Treaty of Paris
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. The primary goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies. Stamps were required for all official documents, licenses, contract, newspapers and a long list of other paper items. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
Fighting began in Lexington and Concord when British troops came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons. Hundreds of British troops came marching from Boston to Concord and siezed an arms cache. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Declaration explains why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states , no longer under British rule -
Battle of Saratoga
Saratoga was important because it marked the turning point in the Revolutionary War and the battle of Yorktown was important because it aided the Contintental Army in ridding all British barracks from New Jersey. Yorktown was also the final battle of the American Revolution.
Result: Pyrrhic British Victory
Location: Saratoga County, New York -
Winter at Valley Forge
General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge.
During the winter, it benefited from the arrival of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben who implemented a new training regimen which transformed the men in the ranks from inexperienced amateurs into disciplined soldiers capable of standing up against the British. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a battle in the Revolutionary War, so its causes are the same. The Revolutionary War was caused by all the events right before it started. These events include the placement of acts. The acts put taxes on everyday items such as paper and tea. In result the colonists got very mad.
Results of the Battle of Yorktown When Cornwallis surrendered, the colonists won the battle. -
U.S. Constitution written
The Articles of Confederation established the first national government for the United States. It had a weak central government and gave too much power to the states. It said that the government couldn't tax people, make a military, or enforce laws. It led to the writing of the Constitution. -
U.S. Constitution adopted
Nine states were required to ratify the Constitution; the Federalists wasted no time in collecting votes. Four small states—Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut—quickly assembled their state Conventions and ratified the document. They had the most to lose if the national government remained weak, for they lacked the military and economic strength to stand alone in the world.