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French and Indian War
The French came to try and convert everyone to Catholicism and they didn't want to settle in the land, they would rather exploit it. The French and the Indians allied together and fought against the British. In the end, the Indians and French ambushed the British one night, thus winning the war. As a result of this war, the Treaty of Paris was created. -
John Locke's Social Contract
agreement in which the people consent to choose and obey a government so long as it safeguards their natural rights -
Writ of Assistance
authorized by royal governor of Massachusetts, general search warrant that allowed British customs officials to search any colonial ship or building they believed to be holding any smuggled goods -
Treaty of Paris
Great Britain claimed Canada, all of North America east of the Mississippi River, and Florida. Spain kept their lands west of the Mississippi and New Orleans. -
Proclamation of 1763
Established a Proclamation Line along the Appalachians, which the colonists were not allowed to cross. -
Sugar Act and colonists response
Halved the duty on foreign-made molasses, placed duties on certain imports that had not been taxed before, and provided that colonists accused of violating the act would be tried in a vice-admiralty court rather than a colonial court. -
Stamp Act and colonists response
Put a tax on documents and printed items. -
Declaratory Act
Asserted Parliament's full right "to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever" -
Townshend Acts & colonists response. Why they were repealed.
British taxed certain imports, etc. to protect customs officers. Colonists protested, "taxation without representation" and boycotted imported goods. -
Sons of Liberty is formed & Samuel Adams
colonists who boycotted British goods
one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty -
Boston Massacre
A mob taunted British soldiers in front of the Boston Customs House, resulting in the deaths of 5 colonists. -
Tea Act
Lord North, to save the British East India Company. Gave the company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston rebels dumped 18,000 pounds of British tea into the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Shut down Boston harbor, Quartering Act authorized British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes, and General Thomas Gage was appointed governor of Massachusetts. -
Minutemen
Civilian soldiers who pledged to be ready to fight against the British on a minute's notice. -
First Continental Congress meets
56 delegates met in Philadelphia and created a declaration of colonial rights. -
Publication of Common Sense
Thomas Paine, 50 pages, attacked King George and the monarchy -
Midnight riders: Revere, Dawes, Prescott
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode to tell everyone that 700 British troops were coming to Concord. -
Battle of Lexington
Redcoats appeared and saw 70 minutemen on the area. 1st battle of the Revolutionary War, lasted 15 minutes. -
Battle of Concord
3000-4000 minutemen, colonists won -
Second Continental Congress
Philadelphia, met to debate their next move. -
Continental Army
colonial militia, appointed George Washington as its commander -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Gage sent 2,400 British soldiers, colonists lost 450 men, British lost 1,000+ men, deadliest battle of the war -
Olive Branch Petition
urged a return to "the former harmony" between Britain and the colonies, king rejected -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, stated rights of the people -
Loyalists and Patriots
Loyalists-those who opposed independence and remained loyal to the British king
Patriots-the supporters of independence -
Redcoats push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania
British sailed into New York harbor, summer, 32,000 soldiers -
Washington's Christmas night surprise attack
Christmas night in Trenton, New Jersey with 2,400 soldiers surprise attack -
Saratoga
Burgoyne planned to lead an army down a route of lakes from Canada to Albany, failed, American troops surrendered, resulted French-American alliance -
French-American Alliance
result of Saratoga -
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania, 2,000+ soldiers died, Continental Army fought to stay alive -
Friedrich von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette
Friedrich von Steuben-Prussian captain and talented drillmaster, helped train the Continental Army
Marquis de Lafayette-lobbied France for French reinforcements, led a command in Virginia towards the end of the war -
British victories in the South
Savannah, Georgia (end of 1778); Charles Town, South Carolina (May 1780) -
British surrender at Yorktown
17,000 French and American troops surrounded British on Yorktown peninsula and bombarded them day and night -
Treaty of Paris
confirmed US independence and set the boundaries of the new nation
