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Navigation Act
laws that prohibited the use of foreign ships for trade between countries except Britain. -
French and Indian War Ends
Great Brittan wins and gets more land. -
Proclamation Act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III -
Sugar Act
To pay for the French and Indian War, Britain reversed its policy about "Healthy Neglect" of the American colonies and levied wide-ranging taxes, beginnign with a new tax on sugar and molasses -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament that exacted aquirement from the 13 American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act is name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Declatory Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changing and declining of the Sugar Act. -
Townshed Act
a series of acts passed in the beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain -
Boston Massacre
A street fight on March 5th between the "Patriots" and the british soldiers -
First Committee of Correspondence
the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
The Tea Act
The last thing in an not well known policies and taxes appointed by Britain on the American Colonies -
Boston Tea Party
Indian disguised British Colonists infiltrated and destroyed a shipment of tea and dumoed off the edge to protest against the tea act -
Intolerable Acts
The American Patriots' term for a series of disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
First Continental Congress
12 out of the 13 colonies delegates would form a meeting from September 5 to October 26, 1774 -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
A group of delegates from the thirteen colonies. -
Revolutionary war
This was an armed conflict of Great Britain and thirteen of its North American Colonies.
