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Navigation Act
The English forced trade with colonies. Selling of raw materials and fished goods could only be done between the Colonies and England -
Molasses Act
The Molasses Act was a tax placed on imported goods that came to the colonies such as rum, sugar, and molasses. -
Fort Necessity
Washington set up a small fort called Fort Necessity after marching Fort Duquesne soon after it came under attack by the French and their native allies. -
Sugar Act
Used to lower the price of imported molasses to the colonies idea was that if they lowered the price more people would buy and it would stop smuggling and allow police officers to seize smuggled goods without court colonies did not like this because they felt it compromissed their rights. -
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French and Indian war
10,000 troops from the Fench and Indian war into a police force to enforce this and keep peace with the natives -
Stamp Act
Was when the British placed a tax on all things printed that made the colonists really mad so they boycotted would not buy goods from Britain. Hung effigies in streets of Boston. British lost money so they ended the Stamp Act. -
Townshed Act
Townshend Act was an external tax (tax on imported goods) Glass, Lead, Tea, Paper, and Paint. By the point of this, the colonies were mad about any tax placed so women then supported another boycott and encouraged colonists to wear homemade and domestic goods. Daughters of Liberty was started. -
Boston Massacure
The Boston Massacre had colonists calling for a stronger boycott. -
General Thomas Gage takes over Boston
General Thomas Gage of Boston had an order from parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia. -
Intolerable act
Intolerable means painful and unbearable. Administration of justice British officials charged with a capital offense had so be tried in another colony or England. -
Quebec Act
Quebec Act, a government for Canda was created and extended its territory all the way to the south Ohio River, the colonists were trapped. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops, this new act allowed royal governors, to find homes and buildings to quarters of house British solders. -
First Continental Congress
fifty-five delegates gathered together the delegates named this political body the Continental Congress. Leaders for twelve of the thirteen colonies attended, with only Georgia not sending a Representative they discussed their grievances against the British, and then voted. They declared 13 acts of Parliament a violation of “Laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and several charters. They also endorsed the Suffolk Resolved, stating that the Coercive Acts were illegal. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul revere and William Dawes, who were members of the sons of liberty, Revere and Dawes rode to Lexington, a town east of concord, spreading the news. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Massachusetts colonists defined British authority, outnumbered and out thought the Red coats, and embarked on a lengthy ear to earn their independece -
Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold had a 400-man milita to take the fort in NY near Lake Champion because the location was key as there was a stockpile of military supplies. Ethan Allen of Vermont, with the Green Moutain Boys, was also planning to attack Ticonderoga. -
Second Continental Congress
Set up the Continental Army with George Washington in charge. Washington would handle the overall strategy for fighting the British. Once this was put in place, he left Pennsylvania to assume control of the Militia in Boston the Delegates then made one last attempt at avoiding war they then drafted a petition -
Battle of bunker hill
200 people from Boston formed a militia and set up a post on Bunker Hill and Breed Hill across from Boston the next day British attacked. 3rd wave British took Bunker Hill ppl from Boston were low on gunpowder so once they ran out they had to retreat. the name is Battle of Bunker Hill but it actually took place on Breeds Hill. Because of the retreat British won even though 1000 British troops lost their lives taking over the hill while 90 militia ppl died -
Olive branch petition
The Olive Branch petition assured King George lll that the colonist wanted peace, and asked to protect their rights.
The King rejected the petition and prepared for war.
He hired more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight alongside British troops. -
Declartory Act
after the ending of the Stamp Act, parliament passed the Declaratory Act saying that parliament had the right to tax and make choices for the British colonies in any and all cases. -
Washington takes over boston
Washington arrived in the Boston area in July 1775, shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill. Every day the size of the Milita grew with new recruits showing up. Washington realized that he was lacking key factors for a victory his men were disorganized and lacked discipline, and he needed heavy artillery. By spring, March, 17th, 1776 Washington throughout his troops were ready to fight, and the cannons made it from Northern New York. -
Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III
After the king rejected the olive branch potion he hired more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight alongside British troops. -
DOI is signed
While debating went on, Congress created a committee to write a Declaration of Independence (John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman) 11 of 12 voted in favor of England saw these 56 men as tractors to the crown. -
Boston Tea party
B.E.I.C knew that continuing to ship tea to the colonies would cause trouble but they continued to do it. There were 3 ships full of tea that made it to Boston harbor at midnight the sons of Liberty hijacked the ships dressed as Native Americans and dumped all 342 chests of tea overboard and into the Boston harbor.