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series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships -
French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies -
A fight that occurred between a patriot mob and British soldiers where several colonists were killed -
granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Battles that kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. -
first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the American Revolution. -
one of the most famous episodes of the American Revolution. -
Yorktown was to be the last major battle of the American War of Independence. -
established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens