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French & Indian War
The French and British wanted complete control over the Ohio Valley which made a lot of the Native American tribes have to decide who they would help/team with. They used the feud the Algonquin had with the Iroquois' to get each tribe to side with opposite sides. The British ended up wining against the French. -
Stamp act of 1765
The stamp act was passed by the British parliaments consisting of a tax for all American colonists requiring them to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper that was used. Such as ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards were also taxed. The money was needed to help pay the cost of war/fighting. -
Townshend Act of 1767
To help pay expenses involving governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend acts. Which started taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
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Boston Massacre
On the evening of March 5,1770, colonists surrounded Private White throwing insults and objects causing him to call for reinforcements. By the time the small number of soldiers came there was a larger amount of colonists, who proceeded to do the same to them. Until one of the soldiers fired, turning into seven more shooting and killing 5 and wounding 6. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a way of protesting against British Parliament's tax on tea, on December 16,1773 dozens of distinguished men, some were indigenous men, who boarded the three East India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
It was four laws passed by the British Parliament made to punish the colony of Massachusetts's Bay for the Boston Tea Party. These four laws consist of: The Boston Port act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. These acts caused strong colonial resistance, including the meet of the First Continental Congress. -
First Continental Congress meets
Delegates from 12 of Britain's 13 American colonies met to discuss America's future under British aggression. One of their first decision's was to disobey the intolerable acts, to refuse imported British goods, and to raise militia. It ended on
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Battles of Lexington & Concord
Gage was facing the threat of rebellion he wanted to prevent violence by ordering the seizure of weapons and powder being stored in Concord, Massachusetts. Patriot spies heard of his plan such as Paul Rivera and other riders set out to inform everyone that British regulars were coming. Minutemen and militias rushed to confront them, to this day it is unknown who fired first. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
It was a petition sent out to the king it was the last effort to keep peace between Britain and America. It was signed by the continental congress. It was a fail the king did not bother reading it and later declared his own proclamation of rebellion.
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Great Compromise
It was a plan stating that each state would have one representative for every 40,00 inhabitants. Who would be elected by the people. The Senate, the committee proposed for each state to have an equal vote with members chosen by the state legislature. after long debate the Great Compromise was adopted on July 16, 1778. -
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Battle of Yorktown
With help from the French army and navy, Washington's forces defeated Lord Charales Cornwallis. The victory of Yorktown led to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and ended up giving America it independence. -
3/5 Compromise
During the 1787 Constitutional Convention it was determined that three out of every five slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. The 3/5 compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states. -
Enlightenment
A European intellectual movement of the 17th-18th century where ideas about God, reason, nature, and humanity were brought into a world wide view. The idea started moving North and eventually became a revolutionary development in art, philosophy, and politics. -
Treaty of Paris Signed
On September 3, 2783, the treaty was signed American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution, and the United States was officially seen as a independent nation. Two main things on the treaty were the British recognition of U.S independence and indicating boundaries that would allow American expansion west.