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A series of laws that the English Parliament put on the colonists in the 1600s. It made colonists sell all raw material to England, even though they could get better prices elsewhere in Europe -
A British law that imposed a heavy tax on imported goods into the American colonies from non-British territories Parliament placed a tax on all sugar products. Sugar, Molasses, and Rum. -
Fort Nessitity is a fort built by George Washington in 1754. -
a war between Great Britain and France for control of North America. -
An ‘Act’ can be looked at a as synonym for a Tax. This new tax lowered the tax on molasses imported to the Colonies. The idea was that a lower tax:
Would lower the price, and encourage more people to buy. Encourage Colonists to stop smuggling. -
direct tax on the colonies by requiring them to pay a tax on paper on documents, newspapers, and cards -
They were declaring what they could and could not do; this was anywhere, anytime. They were doing this to all of the colonists. -
The towshed act was an external tax on glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint. -
The Boston Massacre was the killing of colonists by British soldiers. caused by growing hostility between Bostonians and British who were stationed in the city to enforce unpopular British policies and taxes like the "taxation without representation" issue -
two British parliamentary laws in 1765 and 1774 that required the American colonies to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers. -
investigation of suspected crimes, the arrest of suspects, and the trial of those accused. -
1774 British parliamentary act that governed the Province of Quebec after it was acquired from France -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 1774, to protest Britain's Coercive Acts -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
occupying the city to enforce the Acts and taxing rules -
Paul Revere's Ride was a mission to warn American patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington that British troops were marching to seize colonial arms in Concord saying "The british are coming!". His urgent warning helped local know what happened -
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
the Second Continental Congress's final attempt in July 1775 to avoid the American Revolution, appealing directly to King George III for a peaceful reconciliation by affirming colonial loyalty -
due to a disastrously difficult, nearly 350-mile march through Maine's uncharted wilderness, where leaking boats ruined gunpowder, starvation forced men to eat shoes and dogs, and disease decimated their numbers, leaving only 600 of 1,100 survivors to join a failed final assault -
George Washington's pivotal success in forcing the British to evacuate the city during the Siege of Boston in March 1776, achieved by secretly placing captured cannons -
30,000 professional German soldiers, known collectively as Hessians , to fight in the American Revolution due to Britain's need for more troops -
likely refers to the Declaration of Independence (DOI), a pivotal document where 56 American colonists formally declared separation from Great Britain in 1776, asserting natural rights and listing grievances, with its formal signing mostly happening on August 2, 1776, signifying a collective commitment to forming a new nation