American Revolution 1

By gwyneth570

  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act effeted the taxes and imposed the britain on the american colonies
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    The French and Indian Wars was an American conflict between Great Britain and France. This war is known as the Seven Years' War. This war began in 1754.
  • Treaty of Paris 1763

    Treaty of Paris 1763

    The document that ended The French and Indian War
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    This Proclamation was by the King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of the French territory
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act was the attempt to provided financial support. It was the act of adding a six percent text on molasses.

  • Stamp Act

    This required all legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets required to use watermarked
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    This accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. The Declaratory Act stated that the British Parliament and Great Britain's taxing authority was the same.

  • Townshend Revenue Acts

    Imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a very devastating event.The soldiers were shooting into a crowd of colonists. There were five killed and some injured.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party destroyed a whole shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

  • Quartering act of 1774

    The quartering act of 1774 were the two british laws passed by the parliament of Great Britain.

  • First Continental Congress

    A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies

  • Intolerable Acts

    Were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.

  • George Washington named Commander in Chief

    George Washington named Commander in Chief a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces.

  • Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech

    He fought aganist Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of virgina. it was when he was ordered to take away all of the gun powder.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    The Olive Branch Petition which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8 1775.

  • Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”

    The Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense” challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy

  • Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress.