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Proclamation Of 1763 (colonist reaction)
King George The 3rd issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the appalachian mountains -
French and Indian War
Also known as the 7 years war. The French and Indian War was the larger war between he Great Britain and France. -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan created to unify the government of the 13 colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Chief Pontiac led a rebellion of a number of tribes against the British and the colonists. Pontiac's Rebellion followed the defeat of the French in the French Indian War (1754-1763) and the conclusion of the series of conflicts referred to as the French and Indian Wars. -
Sugar Act
Also known as the American Revenue Act. The earlier Molasses Act 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial evasion -
Currency Act
One of the many acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts wanted protect British merchants from being paid the colonial currency -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colones before imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
A name given of minimum of two acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colones to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing -
Colonist formed sons of liberty
An organization that was created in the 13 American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect te rights of the colonists and to fight taxation -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the stamp act -
Townshend Act
Measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of The Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies -
Boston Massacre
Tensions between the American colonists and the British were already running high in the early spring of 1770. It was a street fight that occurred between "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at a squad of British Soldiers -
Tea Act
The final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. In fact imposed no new taxes -
Boston Tea Party
Incident where 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Was the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party -
Quebec Act
Quebec Act, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Second Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September and October of 1774. -
1st Continental Congress
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
Give me liberty or give me death definition. Words from a speech by Patrick Henry urging the American colonies to revolt against England. Henry spoke only a few weeks before the Revolutionary War began: “Gentlemen may cry Peace, Peace, but there is no peace. -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
he British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
challenged the authority of the British government and the loyal monarchy
