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Boston Tea Party
On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor. -
Albany Plan of Union
Some represenative throught out the colonies needed to help each other.Benjamin Franklin,who attended the congress,made a proposal called "The Abany Plan of Union"He wanted the colonies to join together to fight the French. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. -
Treaty of Paris
In 1763,the Treaty of Paris ended the war and changed boundaries dramatically.France lost almost all land claims to North America.Britain gained a huge amount of land to use~and to protect.The cost of this protection would cause trouble between Britain and its colonists. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
With the defeat of the French,British colonies began moving west to the area the French had claime.An Ottawa chief from the Great Lakes region united several Native American nations to stop them.His name was Pontinac.He led a series of very successful attacks on British forts.By the spring of 1763,he and his allies had captured 8 forts. -
Stamp Act
Because of the French and Indian War,Great Britain was deeply in debt.Added to that debt was the cost of sending troops to protect the Western Lands.The British goverment decided to turn to the colonists to help pay for these troops.This was only fair,they reasoned,since the troops were there for the colonists' protection. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists from the usurpations by the British government after 1766. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773, which led to the Intolerable Acts (an intense crackdown by the British government), and a counter-mobilization by the Patriots that led directly to the American Revolution -
Townshend Acts
Britain still needed to raise money.A Britsh official named Charles Townshend was determined to raise money from the colonies.Townshend placed a new set of taxes on products the colonists imported form England.A tax on imported goods is called a duty.This new set of taxes was called the "Townshend Acts" -
The Daughters of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty were a successful Colonial American group, established somewhere from 1769-1770, that consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts. Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth[1] and other goods. To call attention to this effort, they would hold spinning contests in the village squares. -
The Boston Massacre
On March 5,1770,Boston did explode.A group of colonists had gathered at the Boston Custom House.The group,led by Crispus Attucks and the others,began to throw snowballs at a British soldier on duty.Soon eight other British soldiers arrived."Come on, you rascals,"the mob yelled. "You lobster scoundrela.Fire if you dare."For a while the soldiers did nothing. -
Intolerable Acts
The Boston Tea Party hit its mark inEngland.Parliament,the british public, and especially King George III were out~raged by it. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. 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. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
On June 23,1775,Washington headed to Boston to take command of his new army.On the way north,he learned that The Battle of Bunker a Hill had just been fought.Two hills~Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill~were located on a peninsula in Charlestown,near Boston.A peninsula is a piece of Land that juts out into a body of water and is connected to a larger piece of Land.The Patriots had surrounded Boston on every side exept Charlestown,so they decided to fortify,or strengthen, this peninsula. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence 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. John Adams put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable. A committee was assembled to draft the formal declaration, to be ready when congress voted on independence. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The entry of France into the Revolutionary War in May 1778 gave Americans hope that they might achieve victory rather than just stave off defeat, for French naval power could impede the flow of British resources across the Atlantic and help to trap British forces in the seaports from which they operated. Yet it was not until the autumn of 1781 that four factors combined to produce a decisive victory. First, Gen. George Washington kept the Continental army in the field despite shortages of mone
