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French and Indian War
This was a north American conflict between the french and Great Britain.The British thought that the colonist should pay for their protection. The french and Indian war cost British treasury around $70,000,000. -
Albany Plan for the Union
Benjamin Franklin, was a plan to create a unified government for 13 colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
Closed down colonial expansion westward. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
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.
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Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
known as “incident on King Street” by the British. Was a conformation in which soldiers of the British Army shot and killed several people while under the harassment of a mob. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political and mercantile protest by the sons of liberty. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws passed by the british Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. Passed the punish the Massachusetts colonist because the of the Boston Tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
was a meeting where 12 of the 13 colonies met. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Their question was how would the colonist meet the military threat of the British. It was agreed that a Continental Army would be created. -
Olive Branch Petition
this asked for peace with the colonist and britain. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
was the start of the American Revolutionary War tensions had grew between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorities. -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine wrote political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. -
Declaration of Independence
statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting and it grants us to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
Articles of Confederation
the first constitution of the U.S. was ratified. -
Treaty of Paris- Revolutionary War
The Treaty of Paris was the official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War. It was signed on September 3, 1783.