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  • Nav.acts

    Nav.acts

    these are a set of laws that were passed by the English parliament to require the colonist to sell all raw materials to England. even though colonists could possibly find better elsewhere in Europe
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

    parliament placed a tax on all sugar, sugar molasses, and rum
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    a war between great Britain and France
  • declaratory acts

    a British law passed alongside the repeal of the stamp act
  • Townshend act

    a series of British laws passed in 1767
  • the Boston massacre

    a deadly confrontation on march 5 1770
  • intolerable act

    a series of punitive laws passed by the british parliament
  • quartering act

    British laws forcing american colonists to house feed, and supply British soldiers
  • administration of justice

    a British law punishing Massachusetts for the Boston tea party
  • the Quebec act

    a British law that granted religious freedom to french- speaking
  • first continental congress

    a meeting of delegates from 12 of american colonies that took place from September 5th
  • general gage takes over boston

    refers to British general Thomas Gage's 1774 arrival as royal governor
  • paul revere's ride

    is his urgent icy journey from Boston to Portsmouth, new Hampshire
  • Battles of Lexington and concord

    the first military engagements of the american revolutionary war
  • second continental congress

    a governing body for the colonies
  • fort Ticonderoga

    the surprise american capture of the fort in may 1775
  • battle of bunker hill

    was fought on June 17 1775 during the american revolutionary war
  • olive branch petition

    was the last attempt to avoid the war with great Britain
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    was his march to Maine decimated his force out of powder/food
  • Washington takes boston

    america forced undertook the siege of Boston
  • DOI is singed

    DIO singed by the delegates mostly on august 2 1776