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| NAVIGATION ACTS | Laws that encouraged activities that supplied England with food and raw materials and would make England rich. All shipping had to be done in English ships or ships made in English colonies. Products like tobacco, sugar, and cotton could only be sold to England or another colony. All European imports had to pass through England first. Taxes had to be paid on any colonial goods that were not shipped to England. |
| FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR | Part of a larger worldwide war called the Seven Years' War that was fought between Britain and France. This was showed the British it would not be easy to govern their huge American holdings. Their solutions to keeping peace on the American frontier lead to the Revolutionary War. |
| ALBANY PLAN OF UNION | A plan devised by B. Franklin where each colony would send a representative to a great council. The council would have authority and power to make war and peace with the Indians. The council could also raise armies, construct forts,levy taxes, and found new settlements. The colonies rejected this plan because they didn't want to give up power to a central government or pay taxes. |
| PROCLIMATION OF 1763 | A british law that said colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountians. This made the colonists angry. King George lll left 10,000 british soldiers in the colonies to enforce this law. |
| QUARTERING ACT | An act that saidby parliment that colonies were supposed to porvide housing and suppiles for british soldiers. |
| STAMP ACT | This was the first attempt by the Britishto tax the colonists directly. The colonists were angry because they didn't have any representatives in Parliament. This was taxation without representation. |
| DECLARATORY ACT | Passed after Parliament cancelled the Stamp Act. Parliament had the right to rule and tax the colonies whenever it wanted to. This law was an attempt by the British to reinforce their authority over the colonies whether they liked it or not. |
| TOWNSHEND ACTS | This act suspended the New York Assembly. Taxes had to be paid on paint, lead, and tea brought into the colonies. This money would pay the salaries of British governors and British officers. |
| BOSTON MASSACRE | British soldiers killed 5 colonists when they got nervous about a large crowd in front of the Boston Customhouse. |
| TEA ACT | It gave the British East India Company total control over the American tea trade. This act hurt the businessses of merchants and shippers. Other colonists were afraid of what other goods would be next. |
| BOSTON TEA PARTY | Colonists were so mad about the Tea Tax, in Boston some members of the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea from boats in the harbor. |
| INTOLERABLE ACTS | These laws were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. Boston Harbor was closed and colonists were sent back to England for trial. These acts suceeded in getting all of the colonies so mad that they agreed to send representatives to Philadelphia. |
| FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS | Colonists voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. They also asked each colony to start training soldiers. This meeting was important because up until now, most delegates did not want to be independent of Britain. They took their rights as British citizens seriously. Colonists started to think about a future independent government. |
| LEXINGTON & CONCORD | The beginning of the Revolutionary War. American soldiers used unconventional tactics by shooting from behind walls and trees. Americans had to choose sides, Loyalists for Britain or Patriots for the Revolution. |
