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Navigation Acts
These acts required that only English ships (including ships of its colonies) be used for trade within the British empire. -
Proclamation of 1763
declared that no colonial settlement could be established west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
This act imposed a tax on all sugar impotorted into the American colonies. -
Stamp Act
Required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards and certain business agreements. -
Stamp Act Congress
The delagates prepared a declaration of rights and grievances againts Gorege III. This action marked the first time that a majority of the colonies joined together to oppose a British Law. -
Boston Tea Party
colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped almost 350 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor as a gesture of tax protest. -
Coercive Acts
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Lexington and Concord
British soldiers called Redcoats, fought with colonial citizen-soldiers, called minutemen -
First Continental Congress
was held at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774 -
Second Continental Congress
British reacted to the resolution passed by the First Continental Congress with even more strict and represive measures. -
Resolution of Independence
was not legally binding document. it was, however, one of the first necessary steps to establsuih the legitamacy. -
Declaration of Independence