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John Locke writes Two Treatises of Government
Filmer cannot be correct because his theory holds that every man is born a slave to the natural born kings. Locke refuses to accept such a theory because of his belief in reason and in the ability of every man to virtuously govern himself according to God’s law. The Second Treatise is Locke’s proposed solution to the political upheaval in England and in other modern countries. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac’s Rebellion was a Native American uprising against the British just after the close of the French and Indian Wars, so called after one of its leaders, Pontiac. Pontiac’s Rebellion begins when a confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacks the British force at Detroit. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the last and most important of a series of colonial conflicts between the British and the American colonists on one side. This was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
The Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Quartering Acts
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. -
First Congress
Was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers and dice for virtually all business in the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
Series of measures into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
Was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act. -
Coercive Acts
Series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea into the water. -
First Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts". Was attended by 56 delegates. Georgia declined to send delegates, they were hoping for British assistance with Native American problems. -
Lexington and Concord
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. -
Minutemen
Typically 25 years of age or younger, they were chosen for their enthusiasm, reliability, and physical strength. Minutemen were the first to arrive to the fight. civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. -
Second contenintal congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Common Sense
Considered one of the most influential pamphlets in American history. Credited with uniting average citizens and political leaders behind the idea of independence. Remarkable role in transforming a colonial squabble into the American Revolution.
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Declaration of Independance
Statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House.Which announced that the thirteen American colonies, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. -
Battle of Saratoga
Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. Achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces. Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis Heights on October 7th, but this time was defeated and forced to retreat. He surrendered ten days later. -
Treaty of Alliance
defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces, as the result signing the previously concluded Treaty of Amity and Commerce. -
Battle of Yorktown
After three weeks of non-stop bombardment, both day and night, from cannon and artillery, Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown, effectively ending the War for Independence.
The Patriot victory ended fighting in the American colonies. Peace negotiations began in 1782. -
Treaty of Paris
Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire and the new country, on lines to the United States. Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war. -
Enlightenment
European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment.
