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Bacon's Rebellion
Cause- refusal to retaliate for a s series of Native American attacks on frontier settlements
Description- armed rebellion that took place by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon
Impact- Peace treaty signed between local natives settlers, royal governor temporarily removed, more people sympathize with frontiersmen, Nathaniel Bacon falls ill and dies -
The First Great Awakening
Cause- question the role of the individual in religion and society
Description- a period of revivalism that spread throughout the colonies
Impact- deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience, it unified American colonies -
Albany Plan of Union
Cause- plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government
Description- formation of a permanent federation of colonies
Impact-gave the Grand Council greater relative authority and allowed a new government to levy taxes for its own support -
French and Indian War
Cause- conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley
Description- was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France
Impact-had greatly enlarged Britain's debt colonist got Ohio River Valley -
British Colonial Acts
Cause- protect British merchants from being paid in depreciated colonial currency
Description- The acts forbade the colonies from issuing paper money, which was creating problems due to inflation and a complex system of varying values and types of money from the various North American colonies
Impact- protests made by the clonies -
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Cause- the French treated them with honor, hospitality, equality and respect as opposed to the British who believed they were superior to the Indians
Description- led a rebellion against the British colonists after they expanded their military presence in the Great Lakes area during and after the French and Indian War
Impact- showed the ability of diverse tribes to come together and form an effective coalition to resist British forces -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Cause- to prevent native and colonial conflict
Description- Proclamation of 1763, proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America
Impact-Colonists who had already settled on these lands were ordered to return east of the mountains -
Boston Massacre
Cause-when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists
Description- British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
Impact- major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists. It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence -
Boston Tea Party
Cause-happened as a result of “taxation without representation” Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which repealed the tax on tea and made British tea the same price as the Dutch
Description-The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. Dumped tea into the Boston Habor as a protest
Impact- The cause of the Intolerable Acts -
First Continental Congress
Cause- The king was mad about the Boston Tea Party and wanted to punish the colonists
Description- In response to Britain's taxes and treatment of the colonists, leaders of the colonies met to discuss what to do about Britain
Impact- By reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists, the delegates hoped Britain would repeal its Intolerable Acts -
Treaty of Paris
Cause- to end French and Indian war
Description-the official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War
Impact- France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there