American Revolution

  • French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    A war that lasted for seven years between French and Great Britain. They were fighting to control North Carolina's land.
  • Navigation Acts (1763)

    Navigation Acts (1763)

    The colonies had to sell certain products. A series of laws designed to restrict England carrying trade to English ships.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    It taxed the colonies on paper. It meant that all legal documents and printed papers used in American colonies had to have an official stamp.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    The colonists were being taxed for provisions and barracks for the army. It required colonial legislatures to pay to house the troops.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Tax on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc imported into the American colonies. It taxed goods that were shipped into the American colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone soldier that quickly turned to a chaotic bloody slaughter. It helped spark the colonist's desire for American Independence.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. It was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.
  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    The intolerable acts were to punish the colony of Massachusetts bay for the Boston Tea Party
  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord

    The battle of Lexington & Concord was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Raising the Continental army through conscription and appointed George Washington to be the general to lead the army. It declares allegiance to the crown.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    The Petition affirms their loyalty to the British crown and emphasizes their rights as British citizens.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    It made a case for independence and directly attacked the political-economic and ideological obstacles to achieve it.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The Ideals are equality, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, consent of the Governed, and the right to alter or abolish the government.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    Was not strong enough to enforce laws or raise taxes. It had a weak central government. Leaving the rest of the power to the state goverments.
  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester of farmers and countrymen against the state of Massachusetts. It further called for a stronger national goverment.
  • Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)

    Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)

    The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. It was to address the problems of a weak central government that was under the Articles of Confederation.