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navigation acts
The colonies represented a good source of wealth and trade. The Navigation Acts were designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect duties in the Colonies. -
french and indain war
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. Boosted by the financing of future Prime Minister William Pitt -
the shot heard around the world
started the revolution -
second continental congress
talking to build ab army. olive branch petition -
proclamation of 1763
in 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
sugar act
taxes on molasses and sugar -
stamp act
all legal documents printed paper must have stamps. and England sends stamp agents -
quartering act
must host 1,500 soldiers and supply necessities to live -
declaratory act
the declaration by the British Parliament that the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act -
town shed act
glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea -
Boston massacre
only five colonist died -
committees of correspondence
communicators passed along British activity -
the tea act
tea cheapens but only one company provided tea -
Boston tea party
the colonist dressed as "Indianans" and dumped the tea in in the harbor -
the intolerable acts
Boston's port is closed, limits town meetings, all trials i Britain/ Canada, colonist allow soldiers in home -
first continental congress
stopped following British laws, unified boycott was approved -
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. -
the battle of bunker hill
1,000 minutemen on bunker hill, when they finally shot,, it sent British into retreat -
Thomas Paine's common sense
Americans could not break their ties with Britain easily. Despite all the recent hardships, the majority of colonists since birth were reared to believe that England was to be loved.
