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The Seven Years' War (also called the French and Indian War in the colonies) lasted from 1756 - 1763, creating a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War. -
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British parliament that enforced restrictions on colonial trade. -
The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a tax (represented by a stamp) on various papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American houses. -
The Townshend Acts initiated taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was an event in which seven British soldiers fired into a crowd killing five and wounding another 6 people which angered an entire colony. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political protest due to the tax on tea. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of 4 laws passed by the British parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay due to the Boston Tea Party. -
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first major battles of the American Revolution, resulting in American victory. -
The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. -
The Olive Branch Petition was embraced by Congress to be sent to the King as a final attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
"Common Sense" is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocated independence from Great Britain to people in the thirteen colonies. -
The Declaration Of Independence is a document that was approved by the Continental Congress. The D.O.I. announced the separation of 13 North American Brtish colonies from Great Britain. -
The Articles Of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 states of the U.S. that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
Shays's Rebellion was an armed revolt in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis. -
The Constitutional Convention met to manage the issues of the weak central government that lived under the Articles of Confederation.