These acts were laws that punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Called the Coercive Acts in England. The Americans called them Intolerable.

A war with the French and Indians versus the British and other Indian tribes over the Ohio River Valley.

Duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea to help pay for military costs and salaries of colonial governors.

the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain authored by Thomas Jefferson

"The Shot Heard Round the World"- The first battle of the Revolution in which British general Thomas Gage went after the stockpiled weapons of the colonists in Concord, Massachusetts.

(1773) Colonists in Boston throws millions of dollars of tea off of British ships in protest of their Tea Tax and Boston Massacre.

1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution that detail the protections of our personal liberties

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies before the American Revolution

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers

(1764) British deeply in debt partly to French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors.

A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power

reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament

Incident on March 5, 1770 where the redcoats killed eleven colonists. This is significant because it added to the resentment of the British by the colonists.

led the Continental Army during the American Revolution/1st president of the United States

1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.