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French and Indian war 1754-1763
1.British vs. Frensh over land
2.World wide war between great britain and france
3.By 1760 the british had won taken canada from the french -
Treaty of Paris 1763
1,Ended the french and indian war.
2.Britain claimed all land east of the mississippi river.
3.Colonist began to settle in the ohio river valley. -
Proclamation of 1763
1.Mad colonist forbidden to cross the applaction mountain.
2.Britian wanted to avoid conflict with native americans.
3.Britain presence and being told what to do. -
Sugar Act 1764
1.Tax on sugar and mollesses product.
2.this act was established as a way of creating revenge for the british kingdom after the french and indian war
3.resolted in the stampact act. -
Stampact 1765
1.Tex on legal documents news papers,wills
2.Was eventally repezlad.
3.Stap act congress formed boycott congress -
Writs of Assistanse 1767
1.costoms officers could searsh ships at will
2.such as a sheriff, to perform a certain task.
3.served as general search warrants that did not expire, allowing customs officials to search anywhere for smuggled goods without having to obtain a specific warrant. -
Townshend Act 1767
1.Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
2.Townshend Acts", but five laws are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.
3.to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies -
Quartering Act 1770
1.ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
2.amendments to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament
3.The French and Indian War they later became a source of tension between inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London. -
Boston Massacre 1770
1.but 1769 passed without excessive conflict.
2.Although the troops were not involved in the death, they were the natural target for aggression directed toward British authority, and were increasingly harassed.
3.One week after the German boy's funeral, on March 5, 1770, violence erupted outside the Boston customs office. -
Tea Act 1773
1.This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid, thus implicitly agreeing to accept Parliament's right of taxation.
2.Thirteen Colonies recognized the implications of the Act's provisions, and a coalition of merchants and artisans.
3.tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies -
boston Tea Party 1773
1.the destruction of the tea.
2.The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act
3.after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Act 1774
1.was a name used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
2., it was passed in the same legislative session and seen by the colonists as one of the Intolerable Acts.
3.Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights, -
1st Continental Congrees
1.a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American.
2.The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioning King George III for redress of those grievances.
3.The Congress also called for another Continental Congress in the event that their petition was unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the -
Battle Of Lexington
1.the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
2.The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington
3.The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America -
Battle Of Concord
1.The town of Concord, Massachusetts, was alerted to the advance of British forces
2.the early morning hours, several hundred men had gathered in the town and began a slow march
3.More militiamen arrived soon thereafter and inflicted heavy damage on the regulars as they marched back towards Boston. -
2nd Continental Congrees
1.was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
2.that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun
3.The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies -
Ft.Ticonderoga
1.During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4,000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16,000 British troops near the fort
2.The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River in the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) between Lake Champlain and Lake George and was strategically placed in conflicts over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River
3.is a large 18th-century star fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end -
Bunker Hill
1.June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War.
2.The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill
3.The battle is seen as an example of a Pyrrhic victory -
Common sense
1.It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution
2.Common Sense, was signed, "Written by an Englishman
3.Forgoing the philosophical and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, he structured Common Sense -
Declaration Of Independence
1.was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
2.Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms
3.Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutio -
Battle Of Long Island
1.United States Declaration of Independence, the largest battle of the entire conflict, and the first battle in which an army of the United States engaged, having declared itself a nation only the month before
2.On August 22, the British landed on the southwest shore of Long Island, across The Narrows
3.400 Maryland troops prevented most of the army from being captured. -
Battle Of Trenton
1.during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey
2.Because the river was icy and the weather severe, the crossing proved dangerous.
3.Washington's forces caught them off guard and, after a short but fierce resistance, most of the Hessians surrendered. -
Battle Of preinceton
1.repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton
2.The militia, on seeing the flight of Mercer's men, also began to flee
3.In Princeton itself, Brigadier General John Sullivan forced some British troops who had taken refuge in Nassau Hall to surrender, ending the battle -
Battle Of Saratoga
1.conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war.
2.The first battle, on September 19, began when Burgoyne moved some of his troops in an attempt to flank the entrenched American position on Bemis Heights. Benedict Arnold, anticipating the maneuver, placed significant forces in his way.
3.. Militia forces continued to arrive, swelling the size of the American army. Disputes within -
Winter At Valley Forge
1.With winter almost set in, and the prospects for campaigning greatly diminishing
2.The high ground of Mount Joy and the adjoining elevated ground of Mount Misery combined with the Schuylkill River to the north, made the area easily defensible.
3.The men were under cover within six weeks. -
Battle Of Yorktown
1.was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington
2.In 1780, 5,500 French soldiers landed in Rhode Island to assist their American allies in operations against British-controlled New York City.
3.at first given confusing orders by his superior officer, Henry Clinton, was eventually ordered to make a defensible deep-water port, which he began to do at Yorktown, Virginia. -
Treaty Of Paris
1.The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other
2.The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these
3.Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries