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French & Indian War
Pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
Albany Plan
a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Launched a loose confederation of American Indian tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio. -
Proclamation of 1763
closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia. -
Sugar Act
colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Currency Act
effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
secret revolutionary organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Stamp Act
a 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
troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
Declaratory Act
George III approved Parliament's repeal of the Stamp Act and its passage of the Declaratory Act. -
Townshend Act
series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. placed new taxes and took away some freedoms including: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Tea Act
granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. -
Quebec Act
passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
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common sense by thomas paine
Written by thomas paine. advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
A speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
