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French and Indian War
A conflict in North America,lasting from 1754 to 1763,that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
A trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America. -
Stamp Act
A 1765 law in which Paliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America. -
Sons of Liberty is formed
An organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America with the purpose to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges.The Townshend Acts were met with resistance in the colonies, prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770. -
Boston Massacre
A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770,in which five of the colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain with principal to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The dumping of 18000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts
the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
First Continental Congress meets
A convention of delegates from twelve colonies with the purpose to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. -
Battles of Lexington and Concorde
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. And the battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begunThe second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War.As the result of the battle,Great Britain gained the victory with the heavy losses.Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to regular army troops in a pitched battle. -
Publication of Common Sense
The pro-independence monograph pamphlet Thomas Paine anonymously published on January 10, 1776 which called for separation of the colonies from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The document,written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776,in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain.
