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French and Indian War
in the 1750's, Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. in 1754, George Washington led an army against the French. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American Independence. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's paper, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act of 1774
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in the America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed-beginning in 1767-by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an event where British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing 5 men. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were used to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve to Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5, to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech
Patrick Henry addressed the House of Burgess less than a month before the Revolutionary War. It was basically saying if we don't fight for liberty, we will never get liberty. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
George Washington Named Commander in Chief
George Washington was a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces, and a British colonial army officer, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces raised and to be raised by them" on June 19, 1775, by the Continental Congress. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress met in 1775, when the Revolutionary War had started. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists -
Thomas Paine writes "Common Sense"
Common Sense was written to argue more about more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a contract signed to become an independent country and get away from England.
