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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was known as the Seven Years War. During that time from 1756 to 1763 Europe was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
This was one of many attempts to define a boundary that would separate colonists from Native Americans. This was to reduce conflict and to maintain peace in the border zone between two cultures. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was a colonial merchants which had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of good's -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was the new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Declaratory Act
This was the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
The Townsend Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
This was when a British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. -
The Tea Act
he Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
This was when the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard their ship. -
Quartering act of 1774
The act made provisions for British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists. -
Intolerable Acts
This was when there were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
This managed the colonial war effort and adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech
This was when he addressed the House of Burgesses in Richmond, Virginia. -
Olive Branch Petition
This was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George. -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
George Washington, a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense
This played a remarkable role in transforming a colonial squabble into the American Revolution. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 was between the United States and Great Britain which later ended the revolutionary war.
