U.S History

By Hugo9383
  • 1776 BCE

    Common Sense

    It was written by Thomas Paine.It was about why the American colonies should leave from England.
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    French and Indian War

    The war started in 1756 and ended in 1763. It started when George Washington was sent, with some troops, to defend a Ohio company claim.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation of 1763 is an act that the colonist cannot got west of the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Sugar Act

    An act that taxes sugar.

  • Stamp Act

    An act that taxes all paper.

  • Quartering Act

    This act makes the colonist pay for the Army at the American colonies.

  • Townshend Act

    A tax on "glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies."

  • Boston Massacre

    5 colonist died in the "massacre". It all happened because of the new tax Acts that were passed.

  • Committees of Correspondence

    This united the colonies against the British.

  • Tea Act

    A tax on tea

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protester throw cases of tea Into the Boston Harbor because of the taxes

  • Intolerable Acts

    It was a way of punishing the colonist for the "Boston Tea Party". For example, no more town meetings.

  • First Continental Congress

    Meeting of the delegates in the colonies.

  • Lexington and Concord

    The first battles of the American Revolution.

  • Second Continental Congress

    the second meeting of the delegates of the colonies.

  • Declaration of Independence

    "The Continental Congress voted for Independence" from England