Events leading up to the revolution

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  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Cause: The Government not protecting the farmers and only caring about the rich
    Definition: an armed rebellion that took place 1676-1677 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
    Effect: Sparked the idea of revolting against government
  • Great Awakening

    cause: Enlightenment period
    definition: a period of intense religious revivalism that spread throughout the American colonies.
    effect: altered the religious climate in the American colonies. ... While the movement unified the colonies and boosted church growth, experts say it also caused division among those who supported it and those who rejected it.
  • Albany Plan of Union

    Cause: British looking weak against the French
    definition: a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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  • French and Indian War

    Cause: The British and french both want Ohio river valley
    Definition: Known as the seven years war, fought between the British and the colonists against the French and Indians
  • Treaty of paris of 1763

    Cause: the french and Indian war
    Definition: the treaty that was signed to end the French and Indian War
    Effect: France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there
  • pontiac's rebellion

    united a coalition of American Indian tribes to resist British rule in the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley.
  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War. It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.
  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
  • Boston Tea Party

    a political protest where American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  • First Continental Congress

    initially a convention of delegates from a number of British American colonies at the height of the American Revolution, who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the Thirteen Colonies