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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion occurred at a time when poorer Virginians had a harder time making money because of taxes in their colony. Only people who owned land could vote and the prices of tobacco fell. Nathaniel Bacon was a Virginian colonist, he started a military militia of his own and rebelled. His rebellion was ultimately unsuccessful. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a period of revivalism of religion. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine. It put more relevance on your individual and spiritual experience. It caused people to believe in religion again, over science which was emphasized in the Enlightenment. People started to rely on a more personal approach of salvation. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan suggested by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies into one unified government. The plan failed as colonists were scared of losing their self government. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a war between the British and French allied with the Indians (natives). It mainly took place in North America. They were fighting over territory, mainly over the Ohio River Valley. Britain fought alongside the colonists and ended up winning, they gained a lot of land on the west of North America, and got land from the French. The British were now in debt, and needed to pay off the war. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac was the chief of the Ottawas, he was a native. After the British took land from them and the French, they were very angry. They felt that the colonists/British shouldn't have been allowed to take their land and they felt it was sacred land. Pontiac and his tribe joined with other natives and attacked the British. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763
After Pontiac's Rebellion, the British and Natives came to an agreement. The British issued the Proclamation line of 1763 which was a "line" that banned colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains, which left land for the natives. The colonists lost good farmland and were now the angry ones. -
The British Colonial Acts
Acts like the Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, the Sugar Act, and the Townshend Acts were imposed on colonists after the French and Indian War to help pay off Britain's large debt. Most acts required taxes to be paid on certain goods like tea, molasses, glass (etc.) -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a riot on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. British soldiers were staying in Boston to ensure colonists were paying taxes, colonists started to rebel against taxation. There are differnent versions of this story, but colonists were believed to have started rioting and the british defended themselves by firing their guns. There were 5 casualties. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was a political protest in Boston, Massachusetts The colonists were angry at Britain for taxing them without representation in parliament. They dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor, completely destroying it. -
The Tea Act
The tea act was an act meant to help the British parliament. The act allowed tea to be shipped directly to the colonies without it having to be shipped to England first. England would then save money on taxes as they were still in debt from the war.It would be sent to specific people in the colonies who would then sell it to the colonists. -
First Continental Congress
Representatives from all colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to organize colonial resistance in response to all the taxes being imposed on them. -
The Coercive/Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts were placed by the British after protests like the Boston Tea Party. The goal of the acts were to get back order in the colonies and to try to calm them down. The rules only became stricter as that's why the colonists called them the "intolerable acts". This of course only made them more angry -
The Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay arranged the peace treaty with King George III of Great Britain. In the treaty, Britain formally recognized independence in America.