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Intolerable Acts
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 of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
French and Indian War
War between Great Britain and France aka "Seven Years War". Began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Stamp Act
Imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Treat of Paris, 1763
Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Quartering Acts
An act where American colonies were to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. They were also made to provide food for the soldiers -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
. Townshend Acts
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
A group of nine British soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing five and wounding six men. Between the British soldiers and a crown of colonist in Boston -
The Tea Act
This act was an act by the Parliament of Great Britain that put taxes on the tea that people bought to drink. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of about 70 men boarded on three British ships in the Boston harbor and threw their tea cargo in the sea (about 342 chests). -
1st Continental Congress
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. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Commen Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
Was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain. -
2nd Continental Congress
It succeeded the First Continental Congress. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states that were no longer under British rule. -
Battle of Saratoga
A major battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in northern New York state. -
The Battle of Yorktown
A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops over a British Army. -
Treaty of Paris, 1783
United States and Great Britian signed the Treaty of Paris and this ended the American Revolution
