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Navigation Acts 1651
The navagation acts was a series of laws that restricted the use of foregin ships for trade with every country except Great Britain. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a war between the French and the British. The war lasted between 1754-1763. -
Stamp Act
It was 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. -
Proclamtion of 1763
It was a Proclamtion made 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. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Declaratory Acts
This decloration stated that Parlements authority was the same in the Americas as in Great Britian and asserted Parlement's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
The Townshed Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed — beginning in 1767 — by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacare
This was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male citizens and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. It was a resistance against the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable Acts was the Patriot's term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parlement in 1774 after the Boston tea party. It was meant to punish the Massachusettes colony for throwing a large tea shippment into the harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
It was a convention of the delagates from the Thirteen Colonies that met in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and soon after the Revolutionary War had begun.
