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Treaty of Paris
Document marking the end of the French and Indian war -
Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of the Proclamation was to organize Britain's large North American empire, and to make relations with Native Americans better and more stable by controlling trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. -
Stamp Act
A tax placed on all printed goods,Those that pay the tax get an official stamp on their documents. -
Declaratory Act
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. -
Townshend Acts
It taxed all imported goods. Townshend wanted the duties to make sure the colonists knew that they were under British rule. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre happened when five civilians were shot and killed by British troops. It was in Boston, Massachusetts, which was a British colony at the time -
Tea act
A law made by the Parliament of Great Britain. The law was made to help the East India Company which had massive amounts of tea stored in London which they could not sell. The law would make the company's tea cheaper than other tea which was being smuggled into Britain's colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the British for the Tea Act. Samuel Adams and a group of people named the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and went onto ships in the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable acts
The British Parliament passed these laws to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party. One of the laws closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea. -
1st Continental Congress
Created by the Thirteen Colonies to respond to various laws passed by the British government -
The Midnight Ride; Revere, Cheswell, Dawes
British officials had learned that American Patriots were storing guns in Concord, Massachusetts. They wanted to destroy the guns. The Patriots thought the British also wanted to capture Patriot leaders. Revere and Dawes rode on horseback from Boston to Lexington, to warn colonies that the British were coming -
Lexington and Concord
Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, famous for the "shot hear around the world" -
2nd Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
