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Treay of Paris
officially ended the French and Indian War. The British gained control over the area west of the 13 British Colonies to the Mississippi River. -
Proclamation Act
regulated colonial expansion and dealt with the management of inherited French colonies from the French and Indian war. -
Sugar Act
Colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of 6 pence per gallon of the importation of foreign molasses. It was also known as the American Revenue Act or American Duties Act. -
Stamp Act
A tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
was 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. -
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Stamp Act Congress
18 day meeting of Congress Delegates from 9 colonies adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which petitioned Parliament and the King to repeal the Stamp Act -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
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Stamp Act Repealed
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Committee of Correspondence
In March 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. -
Tea Act
was a policy that ignited the opposition and caused resentment among American colonists; it was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston" was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
The Series of Acts British Parliament passes in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party -
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Continental Congress
21 day meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met at the Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, PA early in the revolution in response to the British Parliaments enactment of the coercive acts in the American Colonies. Georgia only state not to send a delegate. -
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Common Sense
was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Lexington and Concrod
Britain's General Gage had a secret plan. During the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were LEXINGTON, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then CONCORD, where they would seize gunpowder -
Bunker Hill
Battle fought during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary war. The British defeated the Americans. -
Appeal to Reason (Olive Branch Petition)
was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.