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Half Way Covenant Issued
enlarged the terms of baptism and of admission to church privileges as they had been set forth in the Cambridge Platform. -
First Navagation Act Passed
These Acts were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world. -
Enlightenment
movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. -
Boston Newsletter first Published
The first published newspaper in Boston which was heavily subsidized by the British government and was limited to circulation. -
The Great Awakening
a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies during the 17th and 18th Centuries. -
Molassas Act passed
imposed a tax on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. -
French and indian War begins
War between the allied forces of the French and the Indians against Britain. -
King George lll Crowned
George III. King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820. Born June 4, 1738. -
Albany Plan of Union Created
a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Writs of Assistance Passed
Documents that were technically search warrants to come in and search ships that were suspected for smuggling goods. -
Proclamation Of 1763 Passed
it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Intolerable Acts Passed
meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Sugar Act passed
British taxes on sugar products -
Currency Act Passed
control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Stamp Act passed
It was required for the colonists to pay taxes for this piece of papers such as ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards. -
British Hire Hessians to fight against Americans
First actual soldiers sent to America to fight against the Americans. -
Quartering Act Passed
When the British soldiers would have to stay at people’s houses if there was no room in the barracks. -
Sons of Liberty Formed
Secret organizations formed in the American colonies in protest against the Stamp Act -
Stamp Act Congress Meets
This is where some protest against Stamp Act was planned. -
Declaratory Act Passed
The updated version of the stamp act which also in which sugar was also taxed. -
Townshend Acts Passed
Acts that Imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Colonists Begin Boycotting British goods
1 type of protests which involves throwing out goods imports or exports out. -
Tarring and feathering the british agents begin
Old form of punishment. Patriots used it against British officials and loyalists in the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Brtish troops firing upon a group of colonist leaving 5 dead. -
Committees of Correspondence sends first Circular Letter
quickly passed newsletter that is passed out around the British Colonies. -
Tea Act
This was a type of protests in Boston when tons of tea was
thrown out into the water. -
Bsoton Tea Party
Protest by the colonists against the tax on tea by throwing tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Closing of all American Ports
it closed Boston Port to all ships, no matter what business -
Quebec Act Passed
designed to extend the boundaries of Quebec and guaranteed religious freedom to Catholic Canadians. -
First Continental Congress Meets
a meeting in Philidephia of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
Suffolk Resolves issued
Enacted in Massachusetts, Suffolk resolves rejected the Intolerable Acts and called for an immediate repeal. -
Olive Branch Petition issued
Was adopted by Secondary Congress which was the final attempt to avoid a full on war between the colonies. -
Give me liberty or give me death spoken
A quote that Patrick Henry has pronounced showing the spirit and how much he wanted independence from Britain. -
British attack at Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress Begins
the Congress voted to start the Continental army out of the militia units around Boston and nominated George Washington from Virginia as the army commander. -
Minutemen formed
This was a militia fighting for freedom against Britain for America. -
Common Sense Published
This was a document which has information about declaring war on Britain for the fight for freedom. -
The Crisis Published
The American Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration Of Independance signed
document establishing the United States as a nation. -
Letters From An American Farmer Published
Is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
