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Navigation Acts
This added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's act ships crews had to be three-quarters English and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country such as tobacco cotton and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other english colonies -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The way was fought between the colonies of British American and New France with both sides supported by military. -
proclamation act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquistion of french territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties act was a revenue raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Briain -
Stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers,other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaratory act
The American colonies Act 1766 commonly known as the Declaratory Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britian, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act -
Townshend act
In U.S. colonial history series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authoritty over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative -
Boston Massacre
Also known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773 -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd continental congress
managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementall towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence.
