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French and Indian War
George Washington is appointed adjutant in the Virginia colonial militia & 1 year after sends a message to the French moving into the Ohio Valley to leave British territory & they deny it. The start of this war was when Britain did a surprise attack to the French in Fort Duquesne 2 years after they didn't leave the territory creating the Seven Years' War fighting for land. Ended by the Britain, France, and Spanish territories signing the Treaty of Paris & having the westward expansion. -
Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian War settled, British and Indians started to attacked each other. To attempt to stop that King George lll issued the announcement which gave 3 new colonies, prohibited people moving west of the Appalachian Mountains and settle, and not buying tribal lands. Colonists didn't care much and continued to disregard the issue and Washington states it was only to let Indians stay down. -
Sugar Act
Placed duties on foreign sugar and certain other luxury goods. Colonists felt that they were being taxed without their consent and that their right to a fair trial was being suspended. "No Taxation Without Representation!" -
Stamp Act
Required a direct tax placed on most paper goods in the colonies. Colonists demanded Parliament to repeal and agreed on boycotting all British goods. -
Quartering Act
Colonists to be responsible for the housing and provisioning of Redcoats stationed in the colonies.The British government wouldn't pay no more for the supply of the Redcoats. -
Townshend Act
A series of taxes imposed to the colonists on items like glass,paper, lead, and tea. The income they would get would be used to pay the salaries colonial governors had. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob in the Old State House. Started with an argument between British Private Hugh White and a few colonists outside the Custom House in Boston on King Street. It began to escalate once colonists gathered and harassed while throwing sticks and snowballs at Private White -
Committees of Correspondence
Was formed to deal with important issues between the individual colony and Britain. First colony to have established this was Boston. -
Tea Act
Parliament passes an act which wasn't to raise the income from the colonies, but to bail out East India Company which was going bankrupt. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of Massachusetts colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians went inside three of the British ships that contained tea and dumped 342 chests of them into the harbor. It was to protest the fact that they were angered they had to pay taxes for the British tea. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws that British Parliament passed as for punishment for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. Helped bond the colonies together because they all boycotted the British goods. -
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First Continental Congress
Convention in which 12 representatives from the British North American colonies met to talk about the Coercive Acts. Talked about ways so that the colonies could have their freedom from British rule and made a list of basic rights and complaints to send to King George lll. -
Lexington and Concord
First American Revolutionary War battles between the American colonists and British Empire for independence. -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of representatives from 13 colonies that met in Philadelphia after a successful First Continental Congress. Thye managed colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. -
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Common Sense
A pamphlet Thomas Paine wrote to advocate independence from Great Britain to the people in the 13 colonies. Argued how the British and Parliament were controlling them and weren't given them a voice. -
Declaration of Independence
Day the United States became independent and was not part of Great Britain no more. Though it was originally on July 2nd that voting took place, the 4th became the official date.