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The Navigation Acts were a series that imposed restrictions on colonial trade of laws passed by the British parliament -
The end of salutary neglect is one of the main causes of the American revolution -
The Proclamation was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian mountains at the eastern continental divide -
The Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon -
A secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian war -
The British parliament passed the Stamp Act to help pay for British troops that were stationed in the colonies during the 7 Years War, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
New duties were placed on imports of glass, lead, paper, tea to the colonies from Great Britian -
7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing 5, wounding another 6, and angering an entire colony -
Made a clear for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by American colonists in 1773 against British taxation, where they dumped tea into Boston Harbor -
A meeting by the colonies in response to the intolerable acts that the Britsh enforced -
A series of 4 laws was passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
The Olive Branch petition was adopted by Congress to be sent to the kind as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
THe governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first 2 years of the American Revolution -
Marked the start of the American War of independence -
A quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virgina Convention -
Mad a clear case for independence and directly attached the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving -
The founding document of the United States