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French & Indian War
Both wanted to control the Ohio river valley area, so as to be better exploit the lucrative fur and timber trades in the region.The French and Indian War, a colonial extension of the Seven Years War that ravaged Europe from 1756 to 1763, was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. -
Proclamation of 1763
The cause of the proclamation of 1763 is the french and indian war prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and was and was England's way of controlling expansion to save on governing cost. -
Stamp Act
Description:The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was put on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
Cause:raise money to help pay for the French and Indian war and for the ongoing expense of keeping British troops in North America.
Effect:The colonies agreed on a boycott of British goods, stamp collectors had there houses torn apart and were paraded through the streets and forced to resign. -
Townshend Acts
Cause:British desire to raise revenue, punish the colonists and assert the authority of the British Parliament.
Effect:a boycott of British goods and other civil unrest leading up to the Boston Massacre
Description:
The Townshend Acts were a series of legislative measures that the English parliament took in hopes of quelling a rebellion by the American colonists, and the acts imposed taxes on different trades so that the salaries of governors and judges in the colonies increased. -
Tea Act
Cause:The British wanted to get some money to help pay war expenses of the French and Indian War.
Description:The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was struggling financial and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price.
Effect: Colonists dressed as indians to dump tea into the harbor -
Boston Tea Party
Cause:The Tea Act (1773), passed by the British Parliament, withdrew duty on tea exported to the colonies.
Description:Parliament passed the Tea Act, granting the financially troubled British East India Company a trade monopoly on the tea exported to the American colonies.On December 16, 1773, while the ships lingered in the harbor, sixty men boarded the ships, disguised as Native Americans, and dumped the entire shipment of tea into the harbor.
Effect:New laws were made. -
1st Continental Congress
Cause:The Stamp Act Congress, formed by colonials to respond to the unpopular Stamp Act taxes, was the direct precursor of the Continental Congress.
Description:lasted only from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Peyton Randolph served as the first President of the Continental Congress. The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was the drafting of the Articles of Association on October 20.
Effect:July 4, 1776, they adopted the Declaration -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Cause:The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the "Intolerable Acts" all angered the colonists, who met in what became known as the First Continental Congress and issued a Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances to King George III.
Effects:These battles helped unite the colonies against King George III and were the start of The Revolutionary War.
Description:The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military war of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Compromise
The significance was the group ratified the Articles of Confederation and the Congress became known as the Congress of the Confederation.The American delegates asked George III to attempt peaceful resolution and declared their loyalty to the Crown.The small states won. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
1.This was the first major war of the american revolution
2.Major General William Howe, leading the British forces
3.The British won the battle.
4.The British were trying to keep control of the city(Boston) and control its valuable sea ports.
5.Although the British won the hill and the battle, they paid heavy costs with so many soldiers dying, including many officers -
Declaration Of Independence
Cause:The Revolutionary War.
Effect:We gained our independence from Great Britian
Description:On the 4th July 1776 the American declaration of independence was signed in Philadelphia this now meant that American had freedom from the British empire and were no longer under British rule. -
Battle Of Trenton
1.Washington wins his first major battle.
2.General George Washington.
3.George Washington's army
4.Cause:After being driven out of New York by the British and forced to retreat to the West bank of the Delaware.
5.Effect:Then it caused the battle of Princeton. Together, those battles caused the British to evacuate NJ. -
Battle of Saratoga
1.The British were attempting to separate the New England colonies from the southern colonies.
2.British General John Burgoyne and Benedict Arnold.
3.The Americans won the battle.
4.Cause:The British were attempting to separate the New England colonies from the southern colonies.
5.Effect:The American victories led France to sign the Alliance with the United States and provide the forces that ultimately helped win the war. -
Articles Of Confederation
The benefits of the articles of confederation was that they supported the move to compensate soldiers, and allowed all the states to form a cohesive front to help deal with other European powers.The drawbacks were that congress did not have the power to collect the taxes needed to pay for the expenses of the national government. Also they didn't give the central government enough power. The Articles Of Confederation lasted 16 months, in 1781 it was ratified. -
Valley Forge
1.The American "Continental" Army suffered great physical hardships at Valley Forge, but it emerged from the ordeal as a trained force for the first time capable of defeating the British Army in a European-style battle.
2.Baron Von Steuben, George Washington
3.No One won the battle.
4.It was here that the Continental army was desperately against the ropes
5.A decisive victory had been won -- a victory not of weapons but of will. -
Battle of Yorktown
1.The battle essentially ended the Revolutionary War.
2.General George Washington and British General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
3.The Continental Army, led by George Washington, won against the British, led by General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
4.The French Navy defeating the British Navy in the Battle of the Chesapeake in September 1781.
5.The British surrendered to the Americans and The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolution. -
Treaty Of Paris
1.The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
2.King George II
3.Basically the colonists
4.The Revolutionary War is the cause
5.American independence is the effect. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays rebellion happened becuse farmers could not pay their debts and they were faced with imprisonment and could have lost thier property.They also protested taxes and court fees imposed by the state. This was after the United States won its independence from Great Britain. The rebellion was led by Daniel Shays.he Articles of Confederation were too weak to create an effective government for the new nation.Also it showed that the inability of the central government to maintain law and order. -
Constitiuonal Convention
Significance of the constitutional convention was to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.The country had been governed under the 1781 Articles of Confederation since independence from Britain, but this was causing problems. The purpose of the Convention was to fix these problems, but a number of delegates wanted a new government.King George did not want to sign because he wanted to have full control of the 13 colonies.James Madison -
Great Compromise
The significance of the great compromise was that it set up the lower house , the House of Representatives, and the upper house, the Senate. The lower house's representation was based on the states population and the upper house was given two seats per state.The Great compromise was made between larger and smaller states. Also known as the Connecticut Compromise, it asserted the bicameral legislature which made a house based on population and a house based on statehood equally weighted. No one. -
3/5ths Compromise
The signifacance of the 3/5ths compromise was that the issue of how to count slaves split the delegates into two groups. The northerners regarded slaves as property who should receive no representation. Southerners demanded that Blacks be counted with whites.The framers of the constitution had negative thoughts about blacks. No one won.
