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French and Indian War
Also known as the "The Seven Years War", The French and english fought because they both claimed the Ohio River Valley. -
Proclamation of 1763
Docuement issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
It was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament. Its purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs service. -
Stamp Act
Document passed by the British Parliment on the American colonist. It requres people to pay a tax for every printed sheet of paper they used. -
Quatering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Townshed Act
Series of laws that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Fight between Amercan colonists and British soliders in Boston because the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Tea Act
Act that permitted the East India Company to ship tea from its warehouse in Britain without paying the duty. -
First Continental Congress
Meeting where members could share concerns about the tensions with the British throughout the colonies. -
Coercive Acts
A series of laws passed by Parliment that were meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
The second meeting where members were preparing for war because shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachuetts. -
Shot Heard Around the World
"Shot heard around the world" refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Cocnord. -
Common Sense
Book by Thomas Paine that advised independence for the American colonies from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
First formal statement by the nation's people written by Thomas Jefferson.