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French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years' War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre wan an incident on March 5,1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Some disguised themselves as Native Americans in defiance of the Tea Act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16,1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
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First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule.
