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French & Indian War
War fought between France & Britain that lasted until 1763. They fought over land and control of the fur trade. The British ended up winning the war and as a result got possession of the Mississippi River, land east of the Mississippi River, and parts of what is today Canada. -
Proclamation 1763
Banned colonization west of Appalachian Mountains
Those who already lived there must move east -
Sugar Act 1764
All sugar and molasses coming into the colonies would be taxed
They also payed for the troops that were used during the French & Indian War -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. -
Stamp Act
Printed items required to have a stamp saying tax had been paid such as Newspaper's,Licenses,Legal Documents,Items Taxed -
Son of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of dissidents that originated in the North American British colonies. -
Town scend Acts
Taxed more items imported glass,lead,paint,paper & tea -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Tea Acts
The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston Tea Party
Patriots threw tea over board into the Boston Harbor (90,000) -
Lexington & Concord date
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
