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Navigation Acts
Restrictions placed on colonial activity. Such as the condition that only English ships could be used for trade within the British Empire. -
Proclamation of 1763
Declared that no colonial settlement could be set up west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
This act imposed a tax on all sudar imported to the American Colonies. -
Stamp Act
Required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, abd playing cards and certain business agreements. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed as Mohawk indians and dumped 350 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor as a gesture of tax protest. -
Coercive Acts
Closed the harbo and placed the goverment of Boston under direct Brittish control. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battles of the American Revolution. The Battle of Concord was later noted as "the shot heard around the world". -
Second Continental Congress
Delagates that gathered in Pennslyvania. The Congress Immediatly assummed the powers of a central goverment. Its main actions were to establish a army. -
First Continental Congress
Representatives from all of the colonies exclusing Georgia that were sent to Philadelphia to hold a congress. They decided to send a petition to the King, to boycott british goods, and require every colony to start an army. -
Resolution of Independance
A non legal document that declared our independance from Britian. It was one of the First steps to establish the legitamacy.
