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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Act 1651, long titled An Act for increased Shipping, and Encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation as well as the trade with its colonies. -
French-Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764 it taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. -
Townshend Acts
the Townshend Acts to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770, American people stared throwing snowballs at the British soldiers and then they opened fire killing five and wounding six. The Boston Massacre marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly. -
Boston Tea Party
It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 boxes of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). -
Second Continental Congress
They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia. Paine argued for two main points independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence states basic ideas. God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the main business of the government is to protect these rights -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.