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Washington's Defeat
First battle of the French and Indian war -
albany plan of union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
French and Indian war
The war between The French and Great Britain -
Proclamation of 1763
The Brittish proclamation at the end of the French and Indian war. The colonists just ignored the proclamation and moved across the apalachian Mts. -
The Sugar Act
It lowered taxes taxes to stop smuggling.The colonists reacted by smuggling even more. They also boycotted buying british goods -
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act raised revenue in the colonies to help pay for judges and goverers salaries for they will stay loyal to great Briitain. IT also taxed paper, lead, paint, and tea. The colonists reaction was boycotting Brittish goods and refused to provide brittish soilders with sleeping Quarters. -
Stamp Act
This taxed printed materials, such as: newspaper, paper, stamps, and many others. This angered many colonists which caused boycotting. They also protested. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers If the houses were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of dissidents that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight the abuses of taxation by the British government. -
Daughters of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty were a successful Colonial American group, established in the year 1765, that consisted of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts. -
Stamp act congress
it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to unified protest against new British taxation. -
Boston Massacre
When the British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others on the street of Boston. -
tea act
This act didnt make any new taxes it just gave the east indian company a advantage over the colonies -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty destroyed all of the tea by throwing it into the boston harbor. -
Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
A group of representitives from every colony came together at carpenters hill to unite against brittish taxes. -
Quebec Act
The act was an attempt to deal with major questions that had arisen during the attempt to make the French colony of Canada a province of the British Empire in North America. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
It was the first war in the revoulotionary war, when the british troops were coming paul revere warned the colonys aboit the brittish. -
Battle of Bunker Hil
Most of the fighting was at Breeds hill, and the brittish won only because the colonists ran out of supplies. -
Second 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. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act repealed the Stamp act and it also said they could still pass laws on American. Colonies like they do in Brittain The colonists celebrated but they still didn't like some of it. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
This made the 13 colonies independant from the brittish. -
Treaty of paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783 ended the American Revolutionary War.
