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also known as the "7 year war", it ended up in a British victory and British control over most of the French territory on the continent. This was important to the american revolution because the british wanted to be payed back from the previous war they helped us on -
formerly known as the end of the french and indian war, and the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe. -
the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, forbade white settlement, and restricted commerce with the American Indians. -
Otis, whose sister Mercy Otis Warren was also an American propagandist, is credited with coining the phrase “No taxation without representation.” -
The Sugar Act taxed imported wines, coffee, textiles, and indigo and expanded the customs service. -
The Currency Act prohibited colonial governments from issuing paper money and required that all taxes and debts to British merchants be paid in British currency. -
Britain placed a tax on all paper goods in the colonies. it was important because the colonists were mad about it -
Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend imposed new duties on imports of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea in the colonies -
By the beginning of 1770, there were 4,000 British soldiers in Boston, a city with 15,000 inhabitants, and tensions were running high -
The boston tea party was a protest against the stamp act, Bostonians disguised as Mohawk Indians board ships at anchor and dump thousands of dollars’ worth of tea into the harbor. -
The First Continental Congress, called in response to the Intolerable Acts, met in Philadelphia. All thirteen colonies except Georgia were represented. -
At the battles of Lexington and Concord, seventy-three British troops were killed and two hundred were wounded or missing in action. The patriot losses were forty-nine dead and forty-six wounded or missing. -
taken place outside of boston, major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes". -
King George III addressed Parliament to declare that Great Britain would not give independence to the colonies “The object is too important" -
A Legislative, an Executive and a judicial Power, comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by Government -
On July 2, 1776, Congress declared independence from Great Britain and two days later adopted the Declaration of Independence. Copies of the Declaration were then sent out to the new “Free and Independent States” to print and distribute. -
The Second Continental Congress named a committee to draft the Articles of Confederation to define the relationship between the thirteen new states. -
The American army claimed a major victory at Saratoga, New York, when Continental forces trapped British general John Burgoyne’s army in October 1777. -
Continental officers who had long been waiting to receive pensions and back pay from Congress threatened to revolt against a “country that tramples on your rights.” -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of Great Britain and the United States. “For the British this was a profoundly traumatic event