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The Albany Congress
The British government and the Iroquois tribes meet to form an alliance with the French.They wanted the colonies to agree to cooperate in defending themselves against the French.The Iroquois rejected to make an alliance with them.The colonies rejected to work together also. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Native Americans fought the British,the Iroquois, and the colonists.Control over the Ohio River Valley.The British win, French lost their entire empire. -
The Treaty of Paris
After French lost Quebec they could no longer defend North American territory.In February 1763 Britain and France then signed the Treaty of Paris . Francs nearly lost of all North American possessions.France then surrendered. Britain gained all of French territory. -
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Pontiac's war
Leader of Ottawa nation,Pontiac.Pontiac formed an alliance with the western Native Americans.In May 1763,Pontiac and his allies attacked British forts and settlements throughout the area.At least 2,000 backcountry settlers were killed. British seemed revenge so they killed the Native Americans who had not attacked them. The British finally defeated potions forces. -
The proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was issued october 7,1763 by King George III following Britain. After the french and Indian war ended.this proclamation forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachia mountains. -
The Sugar Act
This was a revenue raising act passed by the British parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British parliament on March 22,1765.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.Ship's papers,legal documents,licenses,newspapers,other publications,and even playing cards were taxed. -
The Quartering act
This was 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.It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldier in the area. -
The Boston Massacre
This is when the British army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
The Tea Act
This act was intended to help the British East India company,one of Britain's most famous companies.Then their was a colonial boycott of tea which seriously hurt the company.So The Tea Act lowered the price of tea by allowing .Then some colonist reacted angrily to the part the act gave the East India company a monopoly on selling British tea in the colonies.This monopoly hurt colonial merchants.Even though colonists still had to pay taxes on tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists called the Sons Of Liberty soon organized in port cities to stop the Est India company tea from being unloaded.Then on December 16,1773 a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded the tea ship. During the next three hours, they threw 342 cases of tea into the harbor.As the crowd cheered and shouted,the raiders destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea worth thousands of dollars. -
The Battle of Quebec
This was a battle fought between American Continental army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans,and it came with heavy losses. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
77 minutemen were waiting when the British arrived.The British commander ordered the minute men to go home. They refused. Suddenly a shot rang out.Nobody knows who it was,but it turned out to be the first shot of the American Revolution.A larger battle took place in nearby Concord. This time,400 minutemen fought the British,killing three of them.As the British retreated toward Boston,about 4,000 Americans fired at them from behind trees and fences. -
The battle for fort Ticonderoga
The capture of fort Ticonderoga occurred during the
American Revolutionary War.When a small force of green mountain boys led by Ethan Allen and colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. -
The battle of bunker and breed's hill
The British defeated the Americans at the battle of bunker hill in Massachusetts.Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy,and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
The olive branch petition
This was a letter from 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. -
The Second Continental Congress
As the crisis with Britain deepened,the Second Continental Congress came together.The second congress managed the colonial war effort,and moved incrementally towards independence,adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776 -
The Intolerable Acts
In response to the incident (Boston Tea Party), parliament also passed four laws. These laws were so harsh.The first act closed the port of Boston.Two others increased the powers of the royal governor/abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature,and cut the powers of town meetings.Now ,anyone accused of murdering a British colonial official could be tried in Britain, rather than than in the colonies.A fourth law strengthened the Quartering Act. -
First Continental Congress
This was a meeting that took place in Philadelphia in September and October 1774.The congress demanded the repeal of the Intolerable Acts and declared that the colonies has a right to tax and govern themselves.It also called for training militias to stand up to British troops if necessary.The congress also called for a new boycott of British goods.