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French and Indian War
It comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries also by American Indian allies.(https://www.history.com/topics/france/seven-years-war) -
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Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.(https://www.history.com/) -
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Sugar Act
Parliament imposed new regulations and taxes on the colonists to pay for the debt they had after the French and Indian War. The first was the Sugar Act of 1764, it established a number of new duties and which also contained provisions aimed at deterring molasses smugglers.(www.ushistory.org) -
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Stamp Act
The act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.(https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act) -
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Quartering Act
Required the colonies to pay for the british soldiers food and shelter.(www.historyisfun.org) -
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Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.(https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts) -
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre also known as the Incident on King Street by the British. It was a incident when the British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.(https://www.stmuhistorymedia.org/the-incident-on-king-street/) -
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Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.(https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-tea-party-and-the-coercive-acts-1770-1774/) -
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Tea Act
The act that permitted the East India Company to ship tea from its warehouses in Britain without paying the duty. Made the tea cheaper and would make colonists purchase it, but also pay the tax on it. This was in response to the colonists hurting British companies by drinking smuggled tea.(www.history.com) -
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Boston Tea Party
Colonist dress us up as Native Americans in protest the tax Great Britain threw tea into the Boston Harbor.(https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party) -
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First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.(www.britannica.com/topic/Continental-Congress) -
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Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774, and October 26, 1774.(http://www.ushistory.org/us/10e.asp) -
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Shot Heard Around the World
On April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to capture the weapons and ammunition stockpiled that were by the American Colonist.(https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-shot-heard-round-the-world) -
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Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.(http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/) -
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.(https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffdec.html)