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The Navigation Acts
English Pariament passed these acts to control tradefrom the 13 colonies. Certain items could only be traded with England and guarenteed market for other goods in England. Some colonists enjoyed this, but some resented English restriction of their trade. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a battle between English forces and French forces. The war started out on a high note for France, but as the years wore on, England began to come back, finally taking the Quebec fort, and France signed a Peace Treaty. The colonist were happy to have won, but the war was expensive, now England needed to pay. They taxed the colonists, and told them they couldn't move west of the Appalachain Mountains. This made some of the colonists mad. -
Writ of Assistance
The Writ of Assisstence was a rule stating that British soldiers could open and inspect any trunks, bag ect lest they be carrying dagerous weapons -
The Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian War, England created an Act stating that no colonists could settle West of the Appalachian mountains, but this rule was hard to enforce, and the colonists moved anyway. -
Pontiac War
The Pontiac War was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes. -
Sugar Acts
England put tax on sugar and molasses, a big part of the Triangle Trade -
Stamp Acts
These were Acts that made the colonists pay taxes to do simple things such as gettting married, writing a will, getting a diploma, and even playing games such dice! -
The Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were laws that forced the colonists to pay taxes to trade glass, paper ect. The colonists were furious, even though the taxes were small -
Boycotts
The people started to stop buying/trading British tea, fabric, and other things. -
Boston Massacre
This event started when a young man was hit over the head by a soldier's musket, thus resulting in the colonists crowding around the soldiers, who were protecting the king's bank, and the colonists were angry, and throwing snow, and sticks at the soldiers. Then, someone shouted, "Damn your blood, fire!" And the soldiers fired, killing 5 unarmed colonists. -
Repeal
The Townshen and Stamp Acts are Repeled -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists were angry that they had to pay uneccassary taxes on things such as tea, which was already very expensive to begin with, so the colonists arranged a plan: A British ship filled with tea was pulling into the harbor, and a group of colonists dressed as Native Americans took the ship, and dumped the barrels of tea into the Boston Harbor -
The Commitee of Correspondence
The Commitee of Correspondence was a group of government organized patriots. They started to take over the colonists government, and they fought against England. -
Tea Acts
England lowered the price of Tea, but put a small tax on it -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a group of rules the colonists found so absurdly harsh, they called in the Intolerable Acts. They were four rules: • They shut down Boston ports, they couldn’t hold more than 2 government meetings a year, major crime trials had to be held in England, and people needed to house red coats -
Lexington and Conchord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of supplies in Concord. The colonists were warned by riders including Paul Revere, that the British Army was approaching. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.