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French and Indian War
British America against New France -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan to create a government for the Thirteen Colonies -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Native Americans rose against the british after being dissatisfied with british policies for their regions -
Proclamation of 1763 (colonist reaction)
Stopped expansion westward beyond the Appalachian -
Sugar Act
Raised prices on imported sugar by the colonies -
Currency Act
Regulated paper money sent to the colonies of British America -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
A secret organization that stood up for European colonists rights -
Stamp Act
Everything that was printed had to be on stamped paper by the government -
Quartering Act
The American people in the colonies had to provide housing and food for british soldiers -
Declaratory Act
It repealed the Stamp Act and lessened the tax on the Sugar Act -
Townshend Act
An abuse of power that was enforced to tax all imported goods -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers killed many people while being threatened in Boston -
Tea Act
Act granted the company to ship its tea to the colonies without stopping in england first -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest -
Quebec Act
Act of parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in Quebec -
1st Continental Congress
September 5, 1774, Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies the became the United States -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Independence from Great Britain so the thirteen colonies could be free. -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
The speech was wrote to influence the virginia convention to send troops into war -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the american revolutionary war -
Second Continental Congress
Was a meeting of delegates from the thirteen colonies in america -
Battle of Bunker Hill
American militia besieged boston while the british was trying to keep control of it.
