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American Revolution
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Navigation Act of 1651
British tightly control Colonial trade between Americas, Great Britain, and the world by restricting trade and making Great Britain less dependent on foreign imports. -
French and Indian war
the french and Indian war was the north american conflict in a larger imperial war between great Britain and France known as the ''seven years war''. it began and ended with the treaty of paris. -
proclamation act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act was passed by the British parliament on march 22, 1765. the new tax was imposed on all american colonists and required them to pay a tax on on every piece of printed paper used. ships papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, even playing cards were taxed -
The Declaratory Act
declaration by the British parliament that accompanied the repel od the stamp act. it stated that the British parliaments taxing authority was the same in america as in great Britain. parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the sugar act and the stamp act. -
Boston masacre
The Boston massacre was a street fight that occurred on march 5, 1770 between a ''patriot'' mob, throwing snowballs, stones,and a squad of British soldiers. several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of citezenry -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty dump British tea. on this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians bored three British tea ships moored in Boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. known as the ''Boston tea party'' -
intolerable acts
the american patriots terms for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. they were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their difience of throwing a large tea shipment. -
1st continetal congress
Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that met on September 5, to October 26, 1774. at carpenters hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the american evolution -
2nd continental congress
it succeeded the 1st continental congress, which met between September 5th, 1774 and October 26th, 1774, also in Philadelphia. the second congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776 -
Sugar Act
parliament passed a modified version of the sugar and molasses act which was about to expire, under the molasses act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon of the importation of foreign molasses. -
Townshed Act
the Townsend act were a series of acts passed-beginning in 1767 by the parliament of great Britain relating to the British colonies in north america. the acts are named after Charles Townsend, the chancellor of the exchequer, who proposed the program.
