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French and Indian War
Sometimes also referred to as the Seven Years' War, this war lasted from 1756 to 1783. This war was also the final Colonial War. The Treaty of Paris helped end this war in 1763. War was between British and French. War strted in Europe, then it started spreading to North America. British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French territory. British soilders fought agaisnt the French soilders and Native Americans (who joined because they didn't wnt British soilders to take over their land) -
Albany Plan of Union
This was a proposal by Benjamin Franklin during the Albany Congress. This planned called for the means to reform colonial-imperial relations, and to more effectively address shared colonial interests. In conclusion, this proposal was to form a strong union of the colonies under one single governement. -
Proclamation of 1763
issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America following the end of the French and Indian Wars with the Peace of Paris which concluded the Seven Years' War in Europe and the French Indian War in America. -
Sugar Act
A Parliament passed called the Sugar and Molasses Act(1773). This act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies during the reign of King George III during the ministy of George Grenville. -
Stamp Act
act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quatering Act of 1765
two British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1765 and 1774, that were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America. -
Stamp Act Congress
or First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City. The men who attended the meeting consisted of representatives from 9 of the British Colonies in North America. The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation - specifically the Stamp Act of 1765. -
Declaratory Act
British Law, passed in mid March by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and their political victory but the the passing of the Declaratory Act was the beginning of more trouble... -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
the repeal of the Stamp Act was successful because Britain realized the distinction between internal and external taxes. Parliament had tried to extend its authority over the colonies’ internal affairs and failed but continued to collect duties in its ports to regulate trade and as revenue. In other words, external taxes did not affect the principle of “no taxation without representation”. -
Townshend Act
a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea and used revenues to maintain British troops in America and to pay the salaries of some Royal officials who were appointed to work in the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. -
Intolerable Acts
also called the the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts, were a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. The fifth of the Intolerable Acts series was related to Quebec was seen as an additional threat to the liberty and expansion of the colonies -
Quebec Act
one of the five Coercive, or Intolerable Acts, that lead to dissent in the American colonies and to the creation of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances in 1774. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Lexington took place on Wednesday, April 19, 1775. The Battle at Lexington Green in 1775 started the American Revolution and the "shot heard round the world." The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Lexington was located in the village of Lexington in MiddlesexCounty -
Treaty of Paris
Negotiated between the United States and Great Brittian. This ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. A five member commission which involved John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jerfferson, and Henery Laurens. But, it was moslty conducted by Adams, Franklin, and Jay.
