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• The Navigation Acts (1651)

4 acts that made the English in control of all shipping!

The French and Indian War (1756-1763)

British get almost all land because of the French & Natives fighting over trade

The Stamp Act (1765)

British made people buy a stamp to show the paid taxes.

• THE FORMING OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS IN NY AND THE SONS OF LIBERTY IN BOSTON

1765 the leaders and starters of the Boston tea party

• TOWNSHEND ACTS (1767)

Extreme taxes on things the colonies didn't produce

Boston Massacre (1770)

The killing of 5 unarmed colonist by British

COERCIVE (INTOLERABLE) ACTS (1773)

Closed Boston harbor, and everything got strict

• Lexington & Concord (1775)

The first battle in the revolution.

• DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)

Signed our country off to independence