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Bacon's Rebellion
Power struggle between the settlers and natives, so Nathaniel Bacon lead a march on Jamestown; they were granted a comission to continue campaings on the Native Americans. -
Glorious Revelution
William and Mary were given the throne by paraliment, together they passed laws establishing power over the monarach. -
King William's War
War between Great Britain and france. New England colonist helped, because they wanted to protect their Native American allies, ended with the treaty Rijswijk. -
Queen Annes War
War that won over Connetitcut as one of Americas 13 original colonies. -
King George's War
Third of the four French and Indian war. The war was started and orginized by the Mattachutes govener-captured the French fortress. -
French and Indian War
This war lasted for 7 years. The war was mostly between the French and New England, the main cause was colonial distrbuation in the new world. In the end the British won the war. -
Treaty of Paris
The signing of the treaty ended the seven year war, the French and Indian war. The treaty help countries and colonies come up with territory lines in each area. -
Proclamation Act
This act banned colonization of the British anywhere west of the Appalachian mountains. -
Sugar Act
Englad taxed the new colonies on sugar and molasses in order to help pay off th costs of te French and Indian war. -
Quatering Act
On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies settlers homes. -
Stamp Act
Parlaiment put a tax on all kinds of paper goods, the colonists did not like this act, so they boycotted it all together and thr act was repealed in 1766. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was when parliment got together and came up with new ways to tax the colonists and how they should be treated. -
Sons of Liberty
This was a group of American patritos who joined togteher to try and gain freedom from the British government. -
Declaratory Act
Act in which says all American colonies must follow the sames laws as the British do in England. -
The Townshend Acts
These acts put duties on the following items: imported glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Argument between a colonial and a British soldier led to a group of boys throwing stones and snowballs at the British soldiers guarding a customs house. Soon more troops came to back up the lone soldier, as the tempers rose eventually the British soldiers fired into the crowd killing 5 men. -
The Committees of Correspondence
Very simmilar to the sons of liberty, because they were another group that wanted out of the contorol under Endlands laws. -
Tea Act
The colonist continued to boycott English goods and smuggled huge amounts of tea into the colonies to keep from paying the British taxes. So the East India Company worked out a deal with Parliament to sell tea directly to the colonist at the lowest price ever with the tax included. The colonist saw this as a power grab by the East India Company to force small colonial tea merchants out of business. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of patriots dressed as Indians snuck aboard the ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
Close Boston Harbor until the tea is paid for.Cancelled Massachusetts charter and made it illegal for the l
Punishments for Boston Tea Party:
Local government to meet unless the Governor called for the meeting.Moved all Loyal British trials to England to ensure a favorable outcome.The Quartering Act which required colonist to house British soldiers and feed them in their homes. -
The first Continental Congress
In September of 1774 this group of 56 men meet to decide how to work something out with the King. They sent a resolution to King George III declaring what they thought were their rights and how they were being mistreated. -
Lexington and Concord
The British marched to these towns to take colonial arms and gunpowder. In Lexington the British were meet by less than 70 Minutemen and they tried to stop them. Someone opened fire 8 colonist were killed and 10 were wounded. By the time the British arrived in Concord the Patriots had moved the guns and powder to another place. The British began to burn buildings and the Patriots attacked, by the time the British arrived back in Boston, they had lost over 250 men compared to the Minutemen’s less -
The Declaration of Independence
The document that officaly declared the 13 original colonies one big county and would contuine to grow larger and larger in the future.