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The French and Indian war started in 1754 and ended in 1763 with the treaty of Paris. This war was between Great Britain and France. It was also known as the seven years war.
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Following the French and Indian War, Britain wanted to control expansion into the western territories. The King issued the Proclamation of 1763 not allowing settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists who had already settled on these lands were ordered to return east of the mountains.
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This Treaty ended the war between Great Britain and France. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. This would eventually start the american Revolution.
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This is a tax on paper and things like playing cards. This was one of the many taxes placed on the citizens to help replenish the British after the seven years war.
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Protesters who called themselves patriots were protesting against the occupation of their city by british troops who were sent in to make sure colonists paid their taxes. British soldiers shot and killed many people in a mob that they were being harassed in.
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Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution, when the deteriorating relationship with Great Britain made it increasingly important for the colonies to share ideas and information.
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The boston tea party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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The battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolutionary war. During this hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
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In this Battle the British won but only after the colonial militiamen repelled the first two British assaults, they then ran out of ammunition during the third attack and were forced to abandon their redoubt.
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This was written to address political arguments and to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain.
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Valley Forge was where the American Continental Army made camp during the winter of 1777-1778. It was here that the American forces became a true fighting unit. Valley Forge is often called the birthplace of the American Army.
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The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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This was a Battle at Yorktown where joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege basically ended military operations of the American Revolution.
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The Battle of Cowpens was a strategically ingenious American victory during the American Revolution over a British force in South Carolina. It was a rare win for American forces, and it slowed British efforts to invade North Carolina.
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The Treaty of Paris in 1783 was signed by U.S. and British Representatives ending the War of the American Revolution. This then recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation.
