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Writes 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 that ended the French and Indian war. The French lost all their land in North America, the British gained the land to the Mississippi. -
Poniac Rebellion
Rebellion led by Chief Poniac against British settlers out west. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
The law forbidding English colonists to settle west of Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
British deeply in debt partl to French and 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. -
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. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Act were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. -
Coersive Acts
The Intolerable acts were passed in 1770's in response to the Boston Tea Party, where the colonists dumped $10,000 of tea in the harbor. The acts were passed against the colony of Massachusetts until Boston could repay the money. The acts passed by British parliament closed the port of Boston, banned all town meetings, and put General Thomas Gage as the new governor of the colony. The significance of the acts was that they unified the colonies together against England. -
Olive Branch Petition
During the second continental congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III requesting to settle their differences peacefully without going to war.King George III rejects the petition outright.He claims the colonies are in open rebellion and if they continue in there rebellion they will all be put to death as traitors.They now know that this means war with England and if they loose they will be executed. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston who disguised as Indians raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor. Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773, that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Quartering Act
An act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists. -
First Continental Congress
The assembly of colonial delegates from every colony except Georgia in Philadelphia to oppose the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Costly victory over colonial forces at a site near Charleston , Massachusetts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second continental Congress
They organized the continental Army, called on the colonies to send troops, selected George Washington to lead the army, and appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. -
Common Sense
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues for American independence. His argument begins with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation. -
Declaration of Independence
an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were "Free and Independent States" and that "all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved -
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. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton the previous night, Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. -
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 War. -
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. -
Battle of Yorktown
Assault led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau against General Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Parish 1783
The treaty was represented in Paris and signed so that the U.S. could have its independence. The treaty had also said that any loyalist who had land was to be taken away and returned to the U.S. By that time Britain made peace with France and Spain. The U.S. Was no longer part Great Britain it was its own nation. The U.S. Could now have its own government and laws. The new nation began to expand and the British promised to remove all British troops.