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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Act was enforced to restrict the colonist from trading outside of Great Britain. -
End of Salutary Neglect
The event in which the colonists stopped (kinda) friendly relations with Great Britain dude the Navigation Act being passed, stopping the American colonists from trading outside Great Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
Was issued by King George the ||| in order to prevent the American colonists from settling on land from the French. -
Sugar Act
Great Britain pass this act in order to pay for the way, further upsetting the balance of power between the Colonist and Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
The Act cause all Great Britain citizen(including the colonist) to be heavily taxed, This was to help way for Great Britain troop stations during the Seven Year War -
Sons of Liberty
This group was created to undermind the rule of the British/protesting the Stamp Act -
Townshend Acts
An act started by the British parliament that put a tax on highly valuable materials. (a big causes of the Boason Harbor tea littering) -
Boston Massacre
An altercation in which nine soldiers fired into a crowd of rioting British men. The route was mainly caused by Great Britain's many unlawful acts on its citizens -
Committees of Correspondence
A committee make to inform the voters of the common threat of Great Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a protest against Great Britain, in which a bunch of American Colonist poured a high amount of tea into the Boston's Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
These are four unlawful acts that were used to increase Great Britain power -
First Continental Congress
In response the intalble act they met up to formally declare that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen -
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech
The British government would not give the colonies freedom or remove the harmful acts without violence, Henrey would rather death then to under the rule of Great Britain -
Lexington and Concord
Intending to suppress the chance at a rebellion from the colonists the British made there way to Lexington and concord'shot heard 'round the world'(colonists won btw) -
Second Continental Congress
They created an army making George Washington the Commander-in-chief, they also sent another petition to King George but he dgaf declaring a revolt -
Olive Branch Petition
King George declared the colonists as traitors because they made a petition to be treated the same as the Englishmen -
Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
A book that made a case for the independence while also attacking the economic, and political side of Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness(big ah speech)