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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 War War II was a one of the worst years in history starting in 1939 and ending in 1945. It ended with an unconditional surrender of the axis power. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. In 2016 If Donald Trump becomes President he wants to build a wall and deport all of the illegal Mexicans. Not allowing them to come back in to America. -
Sugar Act
A revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The Earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
A name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Townshend Act
Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The killing of five colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Tea Act
Act of Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships and dumping tea in the Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict harsher penalties. -
Coercive Act
Names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain’s colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26 1774 at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates form the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Shot Heard Round The World
Hand drawn depiction of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston, by J. DeCosta July 29, 1775. The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the “Shot Heard Round the World.” On May 2, 2011 Obama announced to the world that Osama bin Laden has been killed. -
Common Sense
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence form Great Britain. The One Man novel by Andrew Gross was a book written by a guy in 1944 that was a Jew and sent to a concentration camp ruined Adolf Hitler. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain. Summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence.
