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Navigation Acts
An act that let the Commonwealth regulate England’s international trade -
French and Indian War ends
The Treaty of Paris is signed -
Stamp Act
An act by the Parliament of Britain which put a tax on all legal papers -
Boston Massacre
A riot that happened between Americans and British soldiers that became bloody -
Tea Act
The British Parliament let the East India Company be the only company to sell tea -
Boston Tea Party
Americans were angry at the British for imposing taxes without representation and so they dumped tea imported from the British East India Company into the harbor -
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament to punish Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Served as the government of the 13 colonies -
Lexington & Concord
They were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates that United the American Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independence adopted
America got rid of their connections to Britain -
Battle of Saratoga
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign and gave America a victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War -
Winter at Valley Forge
It was the third of eight winter camps for the Continental Army -
Battle of Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington’s army -
U.S. Constitution written
It was written at the Philadelphia Convention -
U.S. Constitution adopted
The Constitution was put in place