The American Revolution

By maggie suarez

  • Navigation Act

    Also called act for the Encouragement of Trade, it allowed European goods bound for Americans to be able to pass through England first.

  • French and Inian War

    Also known as "Seven Year's War lasted from 1756 to 1763, a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Hundred Years' War.

  • The Stamp Act

    an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • GerorgeIII became king of Great Britian

    Geroge III took over the British throne after his grandfather died, Geroge II.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Political protest by Sons of Liberty in Boston

  • The Declaration of Independence

    Is the statment that was adopted by second continental congress meeting in Philadxelphia

  • The United States Constetution

    In order to form a more perfect Union.

  • The Bill of Rights

    The Ten original Amendments.

  • First Continental Congress

    meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

  • The Second Continental Congress

    convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun.