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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (Seven Years War) was the North American conflict in a large war between Great Britain and France. -
Proclamation Line
Didnt allow any settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Treaty of Paris
Ended French and Indian War -
Sugar Act
Tax on sugar -
Stamp Act
a direct tax that required the colonist to buy special paper with stamps on them for important documents -
Declaratory Act
Stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
Were designed to collect revenue from the American Colonist by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing some and injuring others -
Tea Act
the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Quartering Act
American colonies had provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. -
Intolerable Acts
made to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment over board (Boston Tea Party). -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech
convinced the delegates to secede from Britain; to fight back against them. He antagonized Britain by imputing every hardships they faced to Britain -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Olive Branch Petition
An attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown -
Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”
Avocation of independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
Leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a British colonial army officer, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces. -
Second Continental Congress
managed the colonial war effort and moved towards independence, -
Declaration of Independence
The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
