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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which took place in the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each army being supported by different Native American tribes. -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts, or more commonly known as the Acts of Trade and Navigation, were a long line of English laws that got developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce with other countries and with its own colonies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act 1765, sometimes known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which made a direct tax on the British colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1766 and 1767 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to give administration. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which 9 British soldiers shot several of a crowd of 3 or 4 hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts were multiple acts of the Parliament of Great Britain which required local authorities in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America to provide British Army personnel in the colonies with giving them housing and food. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was founded by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and expanded their rights as British citizens. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the 1st major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, ending in an American victory anda lot of militia support for the anti-British cause. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that made people in the Thirteen Colonies to want to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the edited version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States and a very important part of our lives. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays's Rebellion was an armed battle in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt panic among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to increase taxes on both individuals and their trades. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the poor central government that existed in rule of the Articles of Confederation.