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Great Awakening
The Great awakening was a revoultion in religon for the colonists. Church officials begin thinking that people were loosing commitment to their churches and need to get thier loyalty back. They begin revoulionizing their speeches and practices. All in all the Great awakeneing got many people back to their religon. -
Thomas paine
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Proclomation Act
The Proclomation was past because the Brittsh was getting overwhelmed with trying to maintain and keep controll of the Colonist moving west of the colonial lands. This outraged Colonists and people that were living past the lands were forced to move back. But soon later the War ended and Colonists were free to move further into Native lands. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act was the name given to several acts passed by Great Britain to control paper money issued by American Colonists. Under this act, colonists could issue paper money in limited circumstances only. It was meant to protect British merchants from inflation when colonial money depreciated -
Sugar Act
It taxeds them on foriegn items plus it was against there liberty because they didnt have a say or vote wether they got taxed or not. -
Protest of The Stamp Act
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Stamp Act
In passing the Sugar Act, Parliament indicated that a stamp tax could be forthcoming. Commonly used in Britain with great success, stamp taxes were levied on documents, paper goods, and similar items. The tax was collected at purchase and a tax stamp affixed to the item showing that it had been paid. Stamp taxes had been previously proposed for the colonies and Grenville had examined draft stamp acts on two occasions in late 1763. Towards the end of 1764, petitions and news of colonial protests -
Refusal of Quartering Act
In January of 1766, the New York Assembly refused to enforce the Quartering Act.In August of the same year, violence breaks out in New York because of colonist's defiance of the Quartering Act. -
boston massacre
When vcolonists rioted against British soldiers the crowd was fired apon. 5 colonists died while another 6 were left injured. -
The Boston tea party
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1st Continental Congress
when 56 colnists met in Carpenters Hall to gaher ideas for colonial rights -
Writing of declaration
The Declaration of Independence is the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Thomas Jefferson's greatest known monument. -
Declaration of Independence
What Thomas Jefferson did was to summarize this idea in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of complaints against the King in order to give a good reason for the breaking of ties between the colonies and England. -
Commitee of correspondence
