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French and Indian war
The French and Indian war is a American phrase of a worldwide nine years war fought between France and Germany. What started the French and Indian war was that the upper Ohio River Valley was part of the British Empire. -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. It was created at the Albany Congress on July 10th, 1754 in Albany, New York. Although this plan was never carried out, it brought the colonies closer together as a whole. -
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Pontiacs Rebellion
The Pontiac’s Rebellion came close to the French and Indian war, which made British make peace with the Native Americans in the Ohio Valley. When the war ended the results were the military being stalemate and Indians conceding British sovereignty, but compel the British policy changes. -
Proclamation of 1763
October 7, 1763. The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George 3, after the end of the Seven Years of war. The colonist reactions we’re that they were ordered to return to the east mountains. -
Currency Act
One of the many Acts of the parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money. The Act sought to protect merchants and creditors from being paid in colonial currency. -
Sugar Act
The Pontiac’s Rebellion came close to the French and Indian war, which made British make peace with the Native Americans in the Ohio Valley. When the war ended the results were the military being stalemate and Indians conceding British sovereignty, but compel the British policy changes. -
Quartering Act
There are two or more Acts of British Parliament given by the name Quartering Act to require the local government of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and was required by Parliament. -
Sons of Liberty
The sons of liberty was a secret revolutionary organization created in the thirteen colonies to help advance rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. This helped in battling the Stamp Act of 1765. -
Stamp Act
Required that many printed material be produced on stamp paper, produced in London carrying an embossed revenue stamp.Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown -
Declaratory Act
Charles Watson-Wentworth was introduced by the Declaratory Act. It stated at the British Parliament’s taxing authority the same as America and also Great Britain. It was passed down to power the colonies in all cases whatsoever -
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Townshed Act
The Townshend Act is placing new taxes and taking freedom away from colonists. The New Taxes are on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. Townshend Act real name was Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
Was known as the Incident on King Street, in which British soldiers shot and killed people that were mobs in Boston. The event was led by two men that were Patriots and their names are Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. The total number of deaths were 5. -
Tea Act
When trying to save the falling enterprise, Britain passed the tea act. The Act granted the company rights to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first stopping in England. Also to commision agents who would have the sole to sell the tea to the colonies. -
Boston tea party
The American colonists were angry and frustrated at the British for imposing taxation without representation, so they dumped 342 chest of tea by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
It was passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The Massachusetts colonists had a law to be punished for changing the taxation by the British for the colonial goods. -
Quebec Act
It gave the French Canadians a complete religious freedom and restored the French form of the civil law. Canada replaced the temporary government, which was created during the Proclamation of 1763 -
First continental congress
The 1st Continental Congress was a meeting that delegated 12 of the 13 British colonies into the U.S. The president was Peyton Randolph until October 22, 1774, then there was another president named Henry Middleton. -
Battles at lexington and Concord
Was the first military war of the American Revolutionary War. The battles they fought was Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. 73 were killed, 174 wounded, and 53 missing during that battle. -
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Second continental congress
Had the same presidents as the first Continental Congress. The thirteen Colonies in America were united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This took place during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the Revolutionary war. -
Common sense~ Thomas Paine
Originally published on January 10, 1776, talked about the independence from Great Britain to the thirteen colonies. In his book, Thomas Pain talks about egalitarian government and argues the importance of being equal. -
Patrick Henry speech
Patrick made this speech on March 3, 1816. He made this speech to the second Virginia Convention.
