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Navigation Acts
Said that English ships were only aloud to bring goods in. -
End of Salutary Neglect
The British reinforced navigation acts -
Proclamation of 1763
stopped Anglo-American colonists from taking lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War -
Stamp Act
requires all paper goods to be taxed -
Sugar Act
molasses went from 6 to 3 pence per gallon -
Sons of Liberty
organized to protest the stamp act -
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
7 british soldiers fired into the bostons causing meyhem. -
Committees of Correspondence
voted to create a 21 member committee of correspondence -
Boston Tea Party
340 barrels of tea was thrown into the harbor -
First Continental Congress - 1774
declared the colonists would have the same rights as Englishmen -
Intolerable Acts
4 laws passed by the British to hurt the colonists -
Lexington and Concord
start of the war -
Olive Branch Petition
last resort to the king to prevent war -
Second Continental Congress
the meetings that united the 13 colonies -
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech
a speech by Patrick Henry -
Declaration of Independence
the 13 colonies severed their political connections to Britain -
Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
a book written by Thomas Paine