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The Enlightenment
The time where scientific development and break-throughs were occuring, and people started thinking more for themselves, by themselves. -
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The Period of Neglect
England was concerned with other things, so for 70 years pretty much let the American colonies do their own thing. -
Navigation Act
An attempt at controlling English trade with other countries, speciffically the Dutch. English ships could only carry goods between the american cononies and England. -
George Washington's First Attack on the French
He and a group of indiand attacked and killed ten Frenchmen on a diplomatic meeting trip, triggering the French and Indian war. -
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Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A battle between the colonists and British soliers ending in the colonist's defeat during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
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French and Indian War
The war between the french and Indians against the british, won by the British, where they won all of France's american land. -
Proclamation of 1763
The crown prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalatchian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
A tariff was placed on all sugar sales in the american colonies. This was the first true internal tax. -
Currency Act
Britian banned the use of paper money as legal tender in all colonies. -
Stamp Act
A tax had to be paid for all leagal paper documents, mainly affecting the wealthy. -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea placed by Great Britian to assert dominance. -
Boston Massacre
After much provocation by "patriots," British soldiers open fired on a crowd, killing five. -
Tea Act
Forced Colonists to buy tea from the East India Company in an attempt to alleviate their bankruptcy. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest where the Sons of Liberty in Boston, dressed as indians, seized 342 chests of tea and threw them into Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of acts passed by parliament to punish the american colonists for their unruly behavior. -
Quartering Act
This allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings,such as: barns, inns, among other unoccupied structures, if suitable quarters were not provided. -
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The First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve colonies in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts. -
Patrick Henry's Speech
Liberty or Death, delivered to to the Virginia House of Burgess, Richmond, Virginia. Rallied Americans to the Revolutionary cause. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolution. The British sent troops to destroy american weapon stashes in Massachussets. -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Published a pamphlet that openly challenges British authority and rallied the colonists to fight for their independence. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty that settled all of the disputed areas after the French and Indian war. England gained all of the French land, and Spain gained all lands wast of the Mississippi River.
