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French and Indian war
A war between the French and British for territory in North America -
Sugar Act
A tax on molasses that was brought into the colonies to minimize smuggling -
The Stamp Act
A law that stated any printed paper goods including legal documents were to be taxed -
Daughters of liberty
A female association to who fought for liberty during the American Revolution -
Townshend acts
A tax on imported goods including tea -
The Boston Massacre
A dispute that led to a few solders killing 5 Boston Citizens -
The Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty sneaked into the East India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
First Continental Congress
Representatives met up to figure out how to respond to the Coercive acts -
Intolerable acts
The goal was to exert control in the colonies but the Intolerable acts had the opposite effect -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
A battle between around 700 British redcoats and the American minutemen within the towns of Lexington and Concord -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Two thousand redcoats marched up Bunker hill demonstrating to the British they wouldn't be easily defeated -
Olive Branch Petition
One last shot at peace between Britain and the colonies -
Thomas Paine "Common Sense"
A book wrote by Thomas Paine arguing democracy and independence --convinced many people to support independence -
Declaration of Independence
A document that declared the american colonies free and independent states -
Battle of Valley Forge
An encampment for the Continental Army where disease killed nearly 2,000 people -
Articles of Confederation
The new national constitution, providing functions of the government system in the United States -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle that ended british rule in the colonies -
Treaty of Paris
A treaty declaring that the U.S was a free and independent nation -
Declaration of rights
A document produced to protect individual rights in European nations -
Proclamation
It created a boundary separating British colonies from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains