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Navigation Acts
Declared that only British ships will be allowed to bring goods to the American colonies. The North American colonies could only export tobacco, sugar, and other local items. -
Stamp Act
Required colonists to pay tax on paper goods.
Sugar Act -
Proclamation of 1763
Prevented American colonists from settling on lands owned by the French. -
End of Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect let British laws be neglected by the colonies. Ending it caused them to actually be somewhat order. -
Sugar Act
cut molasses price from 6 to 3 cents -
Sons of Liberty
a group of colonists who wanted to undermine british rule in the colonies, in charge of Boston tea party -
Townshend Acts
put tax on glass, paper, paint, and tea -
Boston Tea Party
An act of where tea was thrown off boats to protest the tax on tea -
Boston Massacre
an event where nine british soldiers shot into a crowd of 300 to 400 people surrounding them -
Intolerable Acts
Acts that had 4 to 5 major laws enforced throughout them, including; The Boston port bill, The Massachusetts government act, the administration of justice act, and the Quartering act -
First Contential congress
declared that colonists should have the same rights as englishmen -
Thomas Paine Common Sense
A 47 page document that was written to fight for independence and violently call out all the things the colonist deserved -
Committiees Correspondence
People who would alert the colonists about what the British crown decided to do -
Olive Branch Petition
A document that was sent to the king to prevent war from starting -
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech
A speech that was given to promote freedom from being controlled and essentially saying he would rather die than not be free -
Second Continental Congress
the meeting of delegates from all 13 colonies that supported the American Revolution occurring -
Lexington and Concord
First big conflict that led to full involvement in the revolutionary war -
Declaration of Independence
A document that united all the colonies and gained them their independence from Britain