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French and Indian War
a conflict primarily fought between Britain and France over New World territory -
Albany Plan of Union
a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government -
Pontiac's Rebellion
A war launched by a loose confederation of indian tribes -
Proclamation of 1763 (colonist reaction)
Prohibited colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indie -
Currency Act
the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America -
Quartering Act
An act of the British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
Was a secret revolutionary organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Declaratory Act
It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods -
Quebec Act
It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States -
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
As the Virginia convention debated whether to send troops to fight in the Revolutionary War, Henry urged them to do so. -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
To plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts -
Battle of Bunker Hill
during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. -
Tea Act
The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies -
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Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws that placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
