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The Navigation Acts
Many laws were ruled which didn't allow foreign shipping. The goods from inside of Europe could only leave Europe in English ships. They collected the taxes that they got from the ships as well
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French and Indian War
Also nicknamed the seven years war france wanted to have ohio river but there where people already there so they fought them for that river basically. -
Albany Plan of Union
This was a proposal to the 13 colonies to be controlled under one government. There was many supporters for this but King George II denied this. -
Pontiacs rebellion
was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after -
Proclamation of 1763
happened on October 7, 1763 after the french and indian war British made a line behind the applacian -
Sugar act
nicknamed the american revenue act was a revenue raising act passed by the british parliament of great Britain in april 1733 -
Stamp Act
You needed a stamp for everything. Doesn't matter what it is was you needed a stamp for everything. Which raised taxes because they weren't satisfied with the Revenue acts. -
Quartering act
acts of british acts of parliment in the local govt. of the american colonies at the time in some time in 1765 -
Boston massacre
nicknamed the incident on kings street on march 5, 1770, was when british soldiers killed 5 innocent unarmed civilians -
Committees of correspondence formed
New York formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the Stamp Act. In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
Endenton Tea party
New York formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the Stamp Act. In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
intolerable acts
were the American Patriots term for a series of they're rather unfair laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for not listening in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
second continental congress meets
First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
first continental congress forms
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the 1st continental congress forms to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Lexington and concord
1st millitary engagements of the american revolutionary war -
Townshend acts
series of acts passed from 1767 by the parliment of great brittian relating to the british colonies of north america. named after charles townshend -
declaration of independence signed
ndependence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams considered it “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776. -
Tea Act
tea act of 1773 great britain basically reduced a large amount of tea that london owned
