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France and Britain were fighting over land in the Ohio River Valley.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian War. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America. The colonies therefore had no foreign military threat.
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This document prohibited any westward settlements past the Appalachian Mountains
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Britain taxed sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.
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Britain taxed every piece of printed paper the colonists used.
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Britain claimed the taxing in the colonies was the same in Britain. The act gave Britain complete authortiy to make laws binding on the American Colonies.
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The act was designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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British regulars were being harassed by a mob and shot into the crowd, killing five colonists.
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British Parliiament granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American Colonies.
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 343 chests of tea overboard.
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Local colonial governments were forced to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 colonies of America.
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of of British Laws, passed by Parliament and were aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for their actions taken in the Boston Tea Party
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Intolerable Acts.
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A speech he made at the Second Virgina Convention. He is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the RevolutionaryWar.
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These were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War. The British miltary marched from Boston to Concord in search of a weapons cache. Paul revere and other riders warned the nearby colonists that they were coming.
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A petition, drafted by John Dickson, was an attempt to assert the the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British Crown.
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The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Washington was selected on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
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Common Sense challenged the authority of the British governmetn and royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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A meeting that managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent states, and no longer under British rule.
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The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Washington was selected based on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
