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French and Indian War
Span of the French and Indian War. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that ended French and Indian War. Britain got French lands east of the Mississippi river and Spain got French lands east of the Mississippi. -
French and Indian War
War fought between Britain and France in the colonies over territorial disputes. The French got the aid of the Native Americans in the war, while Britain had to send over professional soldiers and expend many resources. This war put Britain in huge debt. -
Proclomation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763, issued by King George the Third, forbade all settlers to settle farther west than the Appalachian Mountains, but the settlers largely ignored the law. -
Join or Die
The Proclamation of 1763, issued by King George the Third, forbade all settlers to settle farther west than the Appalachian Mountains, but the settlers largely ignored the law. -
Stamp Act
British tax on the colonies that required a taxed stamp on all newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest against the tea act where the sons of liberty dressed up as native americans dumped shiploads of british tea into the boston harbor. This was a cause of the intolerable acts. -
Intolerable Acts
Intended as punishments for The Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts punished the residents of Massachusetts, taking away its right for self-government and preventing shipments to and from its harbors. -
Salutary Neglect
An unsaid British policy to only loosely enforce Parliamentary laws that were intended to keep the colonies in the New World loyal to England. -
Second Continental Congress
An unsaid British policy to only loosely enforce Parliamentary laws that were intended to keep the colonies in the New World loyal to England. -
Common Sense
The first work to request independence from England,Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, challenged the hold that England and its crown had over the colonies in in current-day United States of America. -
The Declaration of Independence
A statement which resulted from the Second Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that the thirteen colonies now regarded themselves as sovereign states, not a part of the British Empire.
