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The Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were when everyone acted on mercantilism. Great Britain decided to create a set of laws to make sure that the Great Britain colonies couldn't trade with any other European nations. But these laws caused the colonies to rebel and start to smuggle and do illegal trade. -
French and Indian War
Because of France's expansion in Ohio River Valley, the British started to have many complications. Suddenly, the french started to attack many of the English settlers. In this period, the British military were found homeless. In the end, the French won because of their relationships with the Indians. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal from Benjamin Franklin to discontinue being ruled by a king and make a democracy government for the thirteen colonies. This led to the Road of Revolution because they rebelled from the king himself and yearned to be independent. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac’s Rebellion was a war declared by Indians of the Great Lakes region against the British after the French and Indian War. The Indians, who had formed alliances with the French, were disgusted with treatment from British officials. Unlike their French allies, the British refused to offer gifts to tribal leaders such as guns, gunpowder, and ammo. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 is right after the French and Indian war where the British created this proclamation to gaining the Native Americans by keeping track of who goes in what land. This event is important because it was an issue for the Natives to have to deal with the war and British. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was when you had to pay a tax on sugar. This act hurt the West Indies because of the colonies had been producing high quantity's of sugar with the French. This event was important because of how all the taxes that happen and will help cause anger with the American colonists leading to the war. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was one of the first taxes that the British put on the American Colonists which angered many. The British would force them to stamp every paper they had and then charge them for that British stamp. This event was important because it was when the colonists started to first get angry with the British which helped lead to the start of the war -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts was when after the French and Indian war British soldiers tried to convince colonials to pay for quartering and provisioning on their troops and that did not work out so they got The Province of New York to pass an act. This event was important because of how it changed with the British soldiers winning and what they did after the war and it impacted the colonists because they had to feed and house the British. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were introduced to the colonies where they imposed duties on glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea imported. Many Americans became angry and saw this as an abuse of power of the man who created the Parliament Charles Townshend. This event is important because it shows more reasons for the colonies to get mad at the acts and laws passed from the British. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre started when five colonists died from a squad of British soldiers shooting at the crowd. The British officer and his eight men were arrested for manslaughter, but later acquitted. This gave reason for the colonists to blame it all on the British which considered large rebellion. -
Committees of Correspondence Formed
The Boston Committee of Correspondence was charged with managing the tea crisis from the Boston Tea Party.The Committees of Correspondence was against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act that gave monopoly on tea sales, which meant American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company which costed a lot more. Because of this, colonists refused to unload the tea from the ships. -
Intolerable Acts
Because of the tea party, the Parliament passed a series of laws. The new laws closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid back the damage they had did. Which cut off the entire city from sources of food, medical supplies, and other goods. -
First Continental Congress Forms
The First Continental Congress forms when the colonists respond to the British where fifty-six delegates expect Georgia draft a declaration of rights to elect a first president of Congress. This event is important because of it representing and being the first time for colonists to organize all this for the government. -
Second Continental Congress Meets
The second Congress moved towards independence, creating the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, and making formal treaties such as the Olive Branch Petition. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one first organized women's political actions or movements. It was when women gathered together after hearing of the Tea Act of 1773 and then signed an agreement that said they would keep to their patriotism and they boycotted drinking tea. This event is very important for both the revolution and for women because it is on the the very first political action women were apart of and it helped with the colonists trying to get their tea rights back. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the very first start to the American Revolutionary War. Paul Revere and other people sounded an alarm then they saw the British and started the war. This event is important because it is the very first event that lead to the freedom of the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence Signed
The Declaration of Independence getting signed was the end of the war and the start of the colonies freedom from the British. Members of congress put their signatures and then could finally end the war. This event was important because it was the end of the war and showed how American finally came to be free.
