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French and Indian War 1754-1763
France was more concidered about trading fur. The french built forts to keep the english colonists out! This war was fought over territories. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
This treaty ended the French and Indian War. This treaty stated that British claimed all land east of missississippi river. The natives responded by attacking colonist. -
Proclomation of 1763
This stated that the british did not allow colonist to settle west of the appalacian mountains. The sent troops to protect the boundries. The british were angry at this point because they did not want to pay for protection! -
Sugar act
The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important things. The British did this because they wanted more money; the British wanted this money to help provide more security for the colonies. The security was expensive because of the Indians and fights with foreign powers. The British also hoped that the act would force colonists to sell their goods to Britain as opposed to selling to other countries. -
Stamp Act
This act was created to locate on manufactured goods a stamp saying its paid its taxes. It was a direct act based on taxes. -
Quartering Act
Quartering acts passed by the British parliament.It required colonial assemblies to provide housing, food and drink to British troops stationed in their towns with the purpose of improving living conditions and decreasing the cost to the crown. This act was implemented by General Tomas Gage, the commander in chief of North America. -
Writs Of Assistance
This allowed british soldiers on ships. they were allowed on peoples properties. -
Townshend Act of 1767
This was a tax on all household goods that you would use at home. All household items were now taxed. -
Boston Massacre
The british men killed 5 civilian men. The main one being crispus attucks. The boston massacre involved an accidental shooting. -
Tea Act.
This act was an official act on the tax of tea. This act was stated by british parliament to officially tax tea now. -
boston tea party
The british got tared and feathered by the colonist. Then the colonist dressed as native americans and dumped Tea off of ships!! -
Intolorable Acts
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
First Continental congress 1774
Convention of delagates from 12 british North american colonies that had met a carpenters hall in Philadelphia. This was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts. The congress met to consider options, including economic boycott of british trade. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775. lexington had the first shot fired there and then the men marched to concord. -
Ft. Ticonderoga
It was constructed by Canadien Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years' War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the USA. It was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played a role during the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Bunker hill
the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula. The british kept coming. -
common sense
Created by thomas paine. This increased public support for american independence.Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of seeking independence was still undecided. -
New York
between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington in 1776 and the winter months of 1777. Howe was successful in driving Washington out of New York City, but overextended his reach into New Jersey, and ended the active campaign season in January 1777 with only a few outposts near the city. -
Declaration of independence
Written by thomas jefferson. This document was for unalienable rights. The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Trenton
surprise attack wher george washington and continental army crossed the frozen delaware river and defeated 800 hessians. -
Princeton
The defeat of 300 british troops. this battle took place in New Jersey. -
Saratoga
Key turning point for the americans. If the americans had not of won this then the british would have won the revolution. -
winter at valley forge
very brutal time for george washingtons crew. the americans spent a whole winter at valley forge. His crew needed supplies. -
yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. Last battle. -
Treaty of paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties, see Peace of Paris.