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the french and indian war was a war fought beteween the brits and french people with aid from native americans. -
The stamp act was put in place after the 7 year war to make back the money the crown spent for the war. The colonists were required to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
a loosely organized clandestine political organization active in some American colonies. it played its role battling the stamp act in 1765 -
a series of British acts of parliament passed during 1767. they are named after charles townshend. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. click here for more info -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for putting "taxation without representation." The party dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. click here -
Intolerable Acts, also called (Coercive Acts) in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance. -
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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the Battle of Yorktown was fought by the American's and the German'. the surrender at Yorktown, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington -
the bill of rights is the first 10 commandments to the constitution. it guarantees civil rights to everyone, like freedom of speech, press, and religion.
