American Revolution Assignment

By Contested

  • French & Indian War

    To decide if Britain or France would be the strong power

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Was to appease the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of europeans on there land

  • Sugar Act

    merchants had to pay a six pence per gallon on importation of foreign molasses

  • Quartering Act

    Troops could only be quartered in barracks

  • Stamp Act

    tax on printed paper

  • Townshend Act

    4 acts the british passed to exert authority over the colonies

  • Boston Massacre

    Street fight between patriots and british soldiers

  • Boston Tea Party

    Was to protest tax on tea

  • Tea Act

    Bill designed to save the faltering East India Company

  • Coercive Acts

    Acts passed relating to the colonies

  • First Continental Congress

    Met in a reaction to the Coercive Acts

  • Shot heard Around the World

    The colonial militia were forced to retreat

  • Second Continental Congress

    Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies soon after the American Revolutionary war had begun

  • Declaration of Independence

    Independence was declared by America

  • Common Sense

    Thomas Paine published this pamphlet