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Writs of Assistance
Writs of assistance were documents which served as a general search warrant, allowing customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods. -
Treaty of Parish
The treaty of Parish that ended the French and Indian war. The french lost all their land in North America, the British gained the land to the Mississippi -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Rebellion led by Chief Pontiac against British settlers out west. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Law forbidding English colonist to settle west of the Appalachian mountains -
Sugar Act
British deeply in debt part 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. -
Stamp Act
A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies -
Quartering Act
an act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Towshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
British fired on local colonist killing five of them. -
Tea Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount 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
Sons of Liberty dressed like Natives and went to the three boats the tea were on and threw the tea in the ocean as the British watched in anger -
Coersive Acts
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
First Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775. On June 17, some 2,200 British forces under the command of Major General William Howe (1729-1814) and Brigadier General Robert Pigot (1720-96) landed on the Charlestown Peninsula then marched to Breed's Hill. They were ambushed by George Washington's canons. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775(my birthday) in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies represented in that Congress. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The British met the Militia in Concord with there men of 700 to the Militia men of 70. No one knows who shot first, but lives were lost as the British passed threw them. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary Wa -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed more than 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens.