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Navigation Acts
were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later. -
French and Indian War
North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France -
Proclamation of 1763
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. -
Stamp Act
was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice. -
Declatory Acts
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
2nd Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies.