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French and Indian War
War between Great Britain and France. The indians helped the french. -
Treaty of Paris, 1763
Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France -
Proclamation of 1763
Made sure the colonists couldn't settle past the Appalachian mountains -
Sugar Act
Tax on sugar and molasses -
Stamp Act
Tax on all paper made goods -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to house British Soldiers in their homes. -
Declaratory Act
Repeal of the Stamp Act -
Townshend Acts
Tax on glass and lead -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob -
Tea Act
Reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British East India Company in its London warehouses -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dress as Indians and take over British ships and dump tea into the Boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts
punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
2nd Continental Congress
managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
Document that declared independence from Britain -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point in the revolutionary war. -
Battle of Yorktown
a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army -
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Ended the American Revolutionary War.
