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  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    The Navigation Acts were a set of rules that the English Parliament imposed on the colonists. it made the colonists sell all raw materials to England, even though they might be able to find better prices elsewhere in England.
  • Molasses act

    Molasses act

    Parliament placed a tax on all sugar products. Sugar, Molasses, and Rum.
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity

    George Washington built Fort Necessity to defend himself because the Virginia government made a militia to try and drive out the French.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    The French captured several forts in 1757 William Pitt became prime minister of the British government, he had two goals 1 to open the Ohio river valley 2 conquer French Canada. The treaty of Paris marked the end of the war. french no longer held power in North America North America was controlled by Great Britain and Spain.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    a tax that lowered the tax on molasses imported to the colonies. This was to try to encourage people to stop smuggling molasses.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    An act that puts a small tax on paper things. This includes Newspapers, Wills, Playing Cards, and documents.
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts

    parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies “in ALL cases”
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    A tax on Imported goods like glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint. This made colonists mad about anything that was taxed. Women started the Daughters of Liberty
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    When colonists were throwing stuff at the custom house boycotting. People died and got injured during this.
  • Intolerable (as called by the Colonist) or Coercive (as called by the British)

    Intolerable (as called by the Colonist) or Coercive (as called by the British)

    when the parliament passed the coercive acts which are 1. Administration of justice 2. Massachusetts government, 3. Boston port bill, and 4. the quartering acts