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French and Indian war
A conflict between Britain and France with native american alliances over the control of North American territory. This significantly increased British land but also caused an increase in colonial taxes. -
Albany Plan
A plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies for trade and military. This was turned down by the colonies and the crown. This marked an early attempt at colonial unity. -
proclamation of 1763
This was issued by the British government to prohibit American colonists from expanding west of the Appalachian mountains to prevent conflicts with native americans. This angered colonists who saw this as restricting their expansion and opportunities. -
sugar act
A british law that imposed taxes on sugar and molasses. This angered colonists and contributed to growing resentment toward British taxation without representation. -
stamp act
This required colonists to purchase and use specially stamped paper for legal documents, newspapers, and other publications. This marked the first direct tax on the colonies by Britain and widespread protests. -
Townshend act
This was a series of British laws that imposed taxes on goods like paper, glass, paint and tea in the American colonies. Leading to increased colonial resistance and boycotts. Further escalating tensions between Britain and the colonies. -
Boston massacre
This was a confrontation in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists. Resulting in killing five colonists, this caused anti-British sentiment and was used as propaganda by colonial leaders to rally opposition against British rule. -
Boston tea party
A protest where members of the suns of liberty disguised themself as native americans, boarded british ships and threw crates of tea into the harbor. This outraged the British and the East India company leading to the Coercive acts. -
Coercive Acts
a series of four laws: the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act designed to punish Massachusetts for their acts of resistance to British law, most specifically the Boston Tea Party. This acts would outrage not just massachusetts but all the colonies fearing they could be next. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from every colonie besides Georgia to plan a response to Coercive acts
where they drafted an appeal to the King to repel them. The king would reject it -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
British soldiers marched out of boston to destroy supplies stored by the colonel militia in concord. Learning of this Colonies like Paul Revere rode to warn others of the British plans. A small militia organized in Lexington to stop the British, while it's still unknown who fired first in what is widely considered the first battle of the American -
Second Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony would gather in Philadelphia for the durraration of the war and served as the de facto government for the rebellion. Doing things such as raising militias and appointing generals. -
Olive Branch Petition
This was the last attempt the colonies and the continental congress made to avoid all out war. Where they pledge loyalty to the king but that they deserve rights as any other british citizen would have, the king said no. -
Common Sense
Common sense was Pamphlet written by Thomas Pain to precede the people towards independence and why they need to fight for it. Is really the first instance of major call for independence. -
Declaration of Independence
states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based.
-God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
-summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
Battle of Saratoga
-A decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
-Fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Valley Forge
-A naturally defensible plateau where the army could train and recoup from the year's battles,
-The wet and cold winter weather, muddy and impassable roads, and scant supplies made major battles less likely.
-Defeating the British and winning American independence during the remaining five years of the war. -
articles of confederation
-The written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
-created a national government composed of a Congress, which had the power to declare war
-Established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
yorktown
-A village in SE Virginia
-oint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender
-led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence -
treaty of paris
-Recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
-British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion
-Ending the War of the American Revolution.