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The Navigation Acts
Laws forced Colonist to sell their raw materials to England, even though a better price could be found elsewhere in Europe -
Molasses Act
A British law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North American colonies from non-British countries. -
Fort Necessity
Fort Necessity was built by George Washington then it was attacked by the French -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a war between the Indians French and the British. -
Sugar Act
An act is a tax and they would lower the price. It would encourage more people to buy. It would also encourage Colonists to stop smuggling. -
Stamp Act
In 1765 the Parliament passed the Stamp Act. It had small materials like newspapers, wills, playing cards, and documents. -
Declaratory Acts
Where the Parliament could make laws and connect the American Colonies. -
Townshend Act
Initiated taxes on glass, paper, tea, lead, and paint -
Boston Massacre
Nine British soldiers shot at a crowd of three or four hundred who were verbally harassing and throwing things. -
Quartering Act
Colonists have to provide goods for the British stationed in there places. -
Intolerable or Coercive
British Parliament passed four laws to punish Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Quebec Act
A government was created for Canada, and its territory was extended all the way south to the Ohio River. -
Administration of Justice
A fair trial for British officials who were charged with capital offences while upholding the law in Massachusetts Bay. -
First Continental Congress
Colonial legislatures empowered delegates to attend a Continental Congress which would set terms for a boycott. -
General Gage takes over Boston
Gage withdrew his garrisons from New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Halifax and Newfoundland and brought all under his wing in Boston -
Paul Revere's Ride
Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists’ intricate alarm system summoned local militia companies, enabling them to successfully counter the British threat. -
Fort Ticonderoga
A critical battlefield of the French and Indian War. Begun by the French as Fort Carillon in 1755, it was the launching point for the Marquis de Montcalm’s famous siege of Fort William Henry in 1757. The British attacked Montcalm’s French troops outside Fort Carillon on July 8, 1758, and the resulting battle was one of the largest of the war, and the bloodiest battle fought in North America until the Civil War. The fort was finally captured by the British in 1759. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Details of the attack were leaked and a detachment of 1,000 Massachusetts and Connecticut soldiers more of an armed mob than a military unit gathered to defend a hill in Charlestown. -
Olive Branch Petition
Adopted by Congress the night before to be sent to the king as a last attempt to prevent war from being declared. -
Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec
The American militia that made it into the city found themselves disorganized as a blizzard impaired their visibility. Because of these circumstances, the Patriots were forced to retreat. -
Washington takes Boston
George Washington forces the British to abandon Boston within weeks. After the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the local militia and the Continental Army surrounded the British troops in Boston in a siege that lasted an entire year. -
Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III
Great Britain hired 34,000 German soldiers, of which more than half, 18,000, were from the Principality of Hesse-Kassel, which resulted in all German soldiers being generalized as “Hessians.” -
DOI is signed
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred at the Pennsylvania State House. -
Second Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.