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French and Indian War
A war between England and France -
Navigation Acts
British laws that restricted the use of shipping and trade -
Stamp Act
All legal documents and printed papers used in American colonies had to have an official stamp. -
Quartering Act
Requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces -
Townshend Act
Taxed goods imported to the American colonies -
Boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing many. -
Boston Tea Party
342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company, were thrown from ships, into Boston Harbor by American Patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians -
Intolerable Acts
British measures passed in 1774 that punished the Massechusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Olive British Petition
It was a petition sent to the king that emphasized loyalty to the British crown and emphasized rights as British citizens. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were between British soldiers and American colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
The representative government that brought the American colonies together as they prepared for their revolution. -
Common Sense
47-page pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The public art of declaring the American colonies independent from Great Britain. Proclaimed that the 13 original colonies of America were "free and independent states." -
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the 13 independent American colonies. -
Daniel Shays' Rebellion
The uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
Constitutional Convention
A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution. It addresses the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.