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The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war. The French and Indian war was between the French and the English. The French sided with the Huron Indians and the English sided with the iroguis Indians. -
The Indians Surrendered to the Europeans in the Pontiac's Rebellion
In 1764 the Indians ran out of gunpowder and guns because they no longer had their European supplier so they were forced to surrender. -
The Quartering Acts
This act required the colonies to provide housing and supplies for the British soldiers. -
Stamp Act
In March 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act which required colonists to pay a tax on almost all printed materials. It was the first time that Parliament had imposed a direct tax on the colonies. -
House of Burgesses accepted most of Patrick Henry's Ideas
The Virginia House of Burgesses accepted most of Patrick Henry's ideas of the "social contract'", natural rights, and people have the right to protest any government that violated the social contract by failing to prtect their rights. -
Sons of Liberty
a mob led by the Sons of Liberty tore down the office and damaged the house of the stamp tax collector because they were so upset oer the Stamp Act. -
Nonimportation Agreements
Delegates were sent to Stamo Act Congress to control and coordinate their protests. They encouraged a consumer boycott of goods imported from Britain this was called the momimportation agreements. -
Townshend Acts
Levied new import duties on everyday items like paint and tea. -
Smuggling
Customs officers took over the boat Liberty which was owned by John Hancock for smuggling. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists in Boston hurled rocks and snowballs at British Soldiers. They also yelled at them to shoot so they did and killed 5 people. -
Saratoga
General Burgoyne marched his army from Canada to New York to invade the Hudson Valley but he fell into a trap at Saratoga. Burgoyne surrendered in October. -
Parliament backs down
the British took the soldiers out of Boston becuase of the committees the colonists made like the committee of correspondence. -
Boston Tea Party
The British put direct taxes on the colonist's tea so the colonists did not know. When they found out, they dressed up as Indians and boarded 3 British ships. There they dupmed the tea on the ships in the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philedelphia. They had the idea of "America". -
Lexington and Concord
Gage provocted the battle by sending troops to arrrest Hancock and Adadms in Lexington but then 70 Patriots gathered on the Lexington Green. Then someone fired a shot, "the shot heard around the world". -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense was a book created by Thomas Paine. The book contained radical ideas of idependence from Britain and the union of the new states. Some of these radical ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
It was drew upon Paine's ideas of American Independence and included the idea that all men are created equal. -
Monmouth
The British left Philedelphia and went to New Jersey and New York. On they way they fought off Washington's pursuit at Monmouth Courthouse. -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington marched his troops to Yorktown. There he trappped the British troops because he planned the moment just right so that they were stuck and couldnt evacuate by sea because a French fleet was coming in at the same time. -
Treaty of Paris
In 1782 a new administration including Ben Franklin wanted to make peace so they negotiated a treaty. So in 1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed. It recognized American Independence. and gave big boundaries to the United States.
