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navigation acts
the acts were originally aimed at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by the English trade -
French and Indian war
war between Britian and french in the Americas -
Sugar Act
forced everyone in America to pay a 3 cent tax on sugar -
Stamp act
law passed by British Parliament that imposed taxes on items such as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies -
Stamp Act Congress
Colonial leaders who worked together to try and change parliaments tax laws on the colonies -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that pelted them with stones ans snowballs. -
Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
a handful of colonists hurled a cargo of recently arrived British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea. -
Intolerable Acts
the British responsive measures on the Boston Tea Party -
1st Continental Congress
convention of delegates from twelve colonies, which was a response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts -
Lexington and Concord
the ongoing tension between the colonist and the British exploded into war here. -
2nd Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the thirteen Colonies that managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence -
Declaration of Independence
statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.