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American Revolution Timeline
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Navigation Acts
were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military... -
Declaratory Act
was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. -
Boston Massacre
known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
(initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
were the American Patriots' term 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 defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
