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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of Acts passed in the English Parliament. The colonies represented a lucrative source of wealth and trade. The Navigation Acts were designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect taxes in the colonies. -
French and Indian War
The first battle, Washington defeats the French in a surprise attack. His troops retreat to great meadows and built Fort Necessity. -
Proclamation of 1763
They prohibited colonists from getting west of the Appalachian Mountains. They were not happy about it. -
Molasses Act
People wanted molasses but they couldn't get it unless they got it from England. So people started smuggling things and began to boycott. -
Stamp Act
You could NOT sell or trade goods if they did not have the Royal Stamp on them, if you were caught, you would be in A LOT of trouble. Colonists were angry and boycotted. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were forced to host 1,500 soldiers in their homes providing food, shelter, and everything else they needed. They had to do this on top of paying their taxes and trying to feed themselves. They were angry and responded violently and forcefully. -
The Townshend Act
Writs of assistance established new courts, levied a tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. As a result, there were more protests, boycotts, and smuggling of illegal drugs. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
The sons and daughters of liberty were a protest group who helped organize boycotts they were very rebellious and would tar and feather people. Women signed pledges against drinking tea and they made their own cloth rather than to buy it. -
Declaratory Acts
Parliament then agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act was passed. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and passed the Declaratory Act. -
Boston Massacre
Boston citizens were angry, people were drunk and started throwing things like bottles and rocks at the others. Soon after a shot was fired and that's how things started. Then the Townshend Acts ended except for the tax on tea. -
Committees of Correspondence
Committees of Correspondence was the network of communication for news for the British. -
The Tea Act
The company was not taxed to ship the tea. People were calm after the Boston Massacre though. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty dumped the British tea of the ships. Mohawk Indians board three ships moored in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. Colonists were split, some of them liked it and some did not. -
Intolerable Acts
British are determined to show that they are loyal. Boston's ports were dosed. There were not many town meetings. Soldiers also still had to be allowed to stay in colonist's homes. -
First Continental Congress
Foundation was laid down with Committees of Correspondence. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty set one up in each colony. Paul Revere's first ride ever was through the colonies. -
Shot Heard Round the World
"The British are coming!" was the words they said when they found out they were going to be attacked. They woke all the minutemen so they could get ready and begin to fight when they had to. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
During the siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts which was peripherally involved in the battle -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Thomas Paine's common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
