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Period: to
Founding of America
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French and Indian War
French and Indian vs. British
Fought over Canada and expanding west -
Revolutionary War Ends
vs. British
Fought over Canada and expanding west. -
Sugar Act
-Tax on sugar, molassas and other commodieties -
Stamp Act
-Seale required on documents to make them legal
-Playing cards, patent medicines, cheques, mortgages, contracts and newspapers all required seales -
Townshend Act
-Included: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act
-Purpose: to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule -
Boston Massacre
British redcoats were occupying Boston to enforce the Townshend Act when a riot began and ended with the redcoats killing and injuring colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists boarded ships owned by the East India Company and threw all the tea overboard in resistance to the Tea Act imposed upon them by Britian -
Intolerable Acts
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quartering Act
Quebec Act -
First Continental Congress
-List of grievances made toward king
-Assembly of delages from all parts of the country called for a complete boycott of British goods -
Lexington and Concord
First battles of the Revolutionary War -
Revolutionary War
The thirteen British colonies in North America fought against Great Britian for independence -
Second Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation and Declaration of Independence are drawn up -
End of Revolutionary War
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Shays's Rebellion
-Daniel Shays led a mob of small farmers in rebellion against the government of Massachusetts
-Showed flaws in the Articles of Confederation and called for a new constitution -
Annapolis Convention
-12 delegates from five states met to call for a constitutional convention
-First step towards the second founding and creation of the Constitution -
End of Annapolis Convention
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Constitutional Convention
-Delegates abandoned plan to revise Articles of Confederation
-Chose to make a new constitution -
End of Constitutional Convention