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American Revolution

By JLM2008

  • French-Indian War

    French-Indian War
    The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts
    A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing card

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation."

  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
    A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    Adopted by Congress to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared.

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)

    Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
    Marked the start of the American War of Independence

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Declaring independence

  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation
    An agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies

  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
    An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades

  • Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)

    Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
    Addressing the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.