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French and Indian War
The war between the French against the British. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
As a way to raise revenues from the 13 colonies in America, the British Parliament passed the Sugar Act on April 5, 1764 -
Stamp Act
American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used to pay off the debt for Britain -
Quartering Act
American colonies are to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Townshend Act
This was to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting taxes on imports of tea, paper, glass, and paint -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. -
Tea Act
This was designed to for the colonist to buy tea from British. Then they put a tax the tea. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists throwing tea cargo that was on the British tea ships into Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Act
This was the effect after the Boston tea party. The harbor was closed meaning colonist can't trade with the British. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
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
The document that established the United States as a nation. The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. July 4th is now a national holiday -
Articles of Confederation
The first written constitution of the United States of America -
Battle of Yorktown Surrender
he last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. -
New Constitution
America's official national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for it's citizens. -
Bill of Rights
First ten amendments to the U.S Constitution.
