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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War started in 1756 and ended in 1763. The war fought between France and Great Britain to determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America. -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation prevented them from trading goods like sugar and tobacco with other foreign countries, shipments had to go through England first and be taxed by the British, before they could be imported/exported, massively increasing the cost of buying/selling. -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. If the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, and others. -
Stamp Act
The British started the Stamp Act to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the 7-year war, requiring colonists to pay taxes on paper, documents, and playing cards. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Act was an act to help pay for governing the American colonies parliament passed the Townshend Act, it initiated taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing 5, wounding another 6, and angering an entire colony. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Son of Liberty identified with America over their official status as subjects of Great Britain, that evening a group of 30-130 men dressed in Mohawk warrior disguises boarded the 3 vessels and in 3 hr, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
The Coercive Act was designed to ban town meetings in Massachusetts, it increased British control over the colonies and punished previous acts of rebellion by the colonists. -
Second Continental Congress
The 2nd continental Congress assumed the normal functions of a government, appointing ambassadors, issuing paper currency, raising the continental army through conscription and appointing generals to lead the army -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The battles of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world it marked the start of the American War of Independence, politically disastrous for the British it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was sent by the Congress to be sent to the king as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared, the petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and their rights as British citizens. -
Common Sense
It challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy, the plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration summarized the colonists' motivation for seeking independence by declaring themselves an independent nation the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the government of France and obtain french assistance in the war against Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
the articles of confederation created a sovereign, national government and limited the right of the states to conduct their own diplomacy and foreign policy -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
the army fired warning shots followed by artillery fire, killing 4 of the insurgents and wounding 20 -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
The Constitutional Convention was an event that decided on how America was going to be governed