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French and Indian war
The war pitted the colonies in British America against New France. -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian war. Also ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763
It forbade all settlement west of the App. mountains which was issued by King George III -
Committees of Correspondence
It was the mean of the American colonies that maintain communication lines with one another. -
Sugar Act
The purpose was to encourage trade with the British West Indies . -
Quartering Act
The colonist had to house British soldiers at their own expense. -
Stamp Act
A direct tax on the colonists. All legal documents, news paper, and all printed materials must bear a tax stamp given by commissioned distributers. -
Declaratory Act
It gave Britain exclusive right to legislate on and tax its colonies. Taxes were mostly to finance war debt. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures, passed by the British that taxes good that were imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was a deadly riot. It was first a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldiers. -
Marquis de Lafayette
He secured 6,000 French troops for American cause. -
Boston Tea Party
Millions of dollars worth of tea that was dumped into the sea by colonist dressed as Native Americans. -
Tea Act
It gave the right to ship tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England and commission agents would have the right to sell the tea in the colonies. -
Coercive Acts/ Intolerable Acts
Are laws passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They are mean to punish the Massachusetts colonists. -
George Washington
Commander in chief of the Cont. Army. He led a force into Ohio Valley -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Baron von Steuben
Was hired to put the Continental Army into shape during the hardest day of the revolutionary War. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war. -
2nd Continental Congress
The 13 colonies united in the American Revolutionary war during this meeting. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Early in the Revolutionary war. The British beat the Americans. -
Ben Franklin and John Adams role in the French alliance
John sailed to France to join Ben and Arthur lee on a three month commission to negotiate an alliance with France -
Thomas Paine's, Common Sense
A pamphlet that advocating independence from Great British to people in the Thirteen colonies. -
Committee of Five
A group of five members that drafted and presented what would become the Declaration of Independence. -
declaration of Independence
The nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government in a formal statement. -
Battle of Saratogo
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving victory to the Americans -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 original states of America that served as its first constitution. -
Battle of Yorktown
A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops -
Treaty of Paris
A treaty signed by representatives of King George III in Paris ending the American Revolutionary war.
