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First Navigational Act
It required trade between England and the colonies only to be carried by English or colonist ships -
First Navigation Act passed
Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial ship -
Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival of Protestant Europe and America -
Great Awakening
Religious revival of British colonies. Many colonies found the new meaning in religion. -
French and Indian war began
The war between the French and British in where Native American were on the side of the French -
King George crowned
King George became king -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Bared westward settlement in Indian lands and in turn, protect the colonist from invading Indians -
Sugar Act passed
When the British put taxes on sugar and molasses in the colony. -
Sugar Act passed
when sugar and molasses is taxed in the colonies by England -
Stamp Act passed
When all printed articles of work are taxed by England -
Quartering Act passed
colonist had to quarter any British soldier which meant they had to take care of them -
Declaratory Act passed
Set of laws by the British saying they could make laws in the colonies -
Townshend Acts passed
Revenue duties on tea glass lead paper paints. Strict customs enforcement including "Writs of Assistance" -
Boston Massacre
The killing of five people which was one of the sparks of the American Revolutionary War -
Tea Act
When England put taxed on tea in the colonies -
Tea Act
When tea in the colonies is taxed by England -
Boston Tea Party
When colonist dressed up as indians and raided three British ships and threw tons of tea overbroad in protest against taxes -
First Continental Congress
Colonist meeting together to decide what they want to do about Britain and their tyranny -
Intolerble Acts passed
4 Acts that was used to teach a lesson to Massachusetts : the closure of all Boston ports,deprived Mass. of self government, allowed british officials to be tied in England, and issued stronger quartering act. -
Olive Branch petition
one last attempt to restore English liberties in America. The petition said that loved their king too much to want independence .ju -
Second Continental Congress
Meeting at Philadelphia statehouse, was swamped with colonists' demands for independence. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
General Howe led British troops in a frontal attack on american soldier defending Breed Hill overlooking Boston. -
Lexington and Concord
First Battle of the American Revolutionary War. In Lexington, the shot heard around the world no one knows who shot first. In Concord American minute men ambushed the redcoats shooting indian style taunting the british with a familiar tune with a twist "Yankee Doodle". -
Common Sense published
Thomas Paine's radical pamphlet questioning monarchy , tipped the scales of public opinion toward independence -
Declaration of Independence was signed
the date the Declaration of Independence was signed