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Salutory Neglect
Allows the colonists to have more relaxed regulations. The King would leave the colonists alone as long as they sent resources back to him. -
French & Indian War
Also known as Seven Years' War. War between France, Britain, and the Native Americans. The Native Americans fought on both sides of the war. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by the British Board of Trade under King George III. The goals were to establish governments for their new territories gained after the war, to encourage peace between colonists and remaining Indians tribes and to keep colonists by coasts for purposes of easier taxation and trade. -
Stamp Act
Taxes on colonists that required themv to pay for every printed piece of paper they used. -
Quartering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks. -
Mercantilism Theory
A country has a favorable balance of trade when the value of exports is greater than the value of imports. This influenced British Interest. All countries were in competition for the most silver and gold. Trade was then a popular competition. -
Stamp Act Congress
First congress of the American colonies held in New York, October 7-25. DCreated a unified protest again new British taxation. -
Townshend Acts
Charles Townshend made them but they were passed by the English Parliament after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were made to collect rmoney from the colonists by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Aso known as the "Bloody Massacre". It was a fight in the streets between protestors and British soldiers and alot of colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
Made to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists, who called themselves "The Sons of Liberty", dusguisted themselves as Natives and boarded three British ships and dumped 342 crates of their tea into the Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws put into place by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party. The laws were the most harsh so far. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. -
Second Continental Congress
managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Declaratory Act
It sated that Parliament had the right to make laws for the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Jefferson in Phiadelphia. Celebrated as the birth of Americas independence. -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
Advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain and is considered one of the most influential pamphlets in American history. -
American Revolution Ends
General George Washington's resounding defeat of Lord Cornwallis's British army, which caused the British to surrender and effectively ending the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
