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French and Indian War
also known as the Seven Years War, Britain declared war on France after France expanded onto the Ohio River, leading to continous conflicts with English colonies. Indians sided with the French against the English because the English were discriminatory and cruel against the Indians. -
Proclamation of 1763
after the French and Indian War King George III declared that no citizens of the colonies are to move past the Appalachian Mountains or make deals with Native Americans, this affected all colonies. England prohibited private citizens and colonial governments to buy land west of the colonies. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar act was a proclamation aimed to end the smuggling and trade of sugart and molsses from the French and the Dutch. And fund the Britich empire after the French and Indian War. They placed a six pence or three penny per gallon tax on foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
the stamp act was a tax placed upon paper documents and goods in the colonies. The colonists were quick to react calling the act unfair and wanted representation in procalmations for the colonies. The British placed the act because they were in debt from the French and Indian war and looked into making revenue from the Colonies in America -
Quartering Act
British Parliament passes a proclamation called the Quartering Act. This act claims that British Troops must be provided with barracks, if barracks do not meet soldiers expectation or comfort they can be quatered in Inns and Stables and ale houses and of the sort. -
Townshend Act
Chancellor Charles Townshend proposed that Paliament should pass an act to tax glass, lead, paint, tea and paper that is imported into the colonies. However in 1770 parliament repealed the act with the exception of tea. -
Boston Massacre
A spark of the American Revolution, colonists were taunting a British official and throwing snowballs, sticks, stones and yelling at him. He gained the support of other Red Coats only to be recieved with more verbal harrasment as well. British troops fired at the colonists killing 5 people. The officer in charge of the British troops, Capt. Thomas Preston was convicted of Manslaughter and marked the removal of British soldiers in Boston. -
Committees of Correspondence
A union established to keep the Colonies communicable. The committee was established to encourage opposition with England. The eroding relationship with Britain made it extremely important for colonies to share information with each other. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act passed was to support the British East India Company which was a large factor to British economy, out of debt. They wanted to keep East India tea a monopoly in America at a much lower price which angered the colonists becuase of "taxation without representaion", colonists were not allowed to buy tea from anywhere else not even from colonial merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest where Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships and threw crates of tea overboard. This created more tension to the upcoming revolutionary war, and later brought up the Coersive Acts of 1774. The Boston Tea Party was a result of the Tea Act passed by British Parliament in order to save the East India Company -
Intolerable Acts
The Coersive Acts were a series of 4 acts aimed to punish those responisble of the destruction of British property made by the Boston Tea Party. the 1st act was the Boston Port Act which closed the Boston Port until the destruction of British property was payed. The 2nd was the Massachussetts Government Act restricted democratic town meetings. The 3rd The Admin. of Justice Act which made British officials immune to criminal offenses. 4th the Quartering Act was made to house British troops. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental congress was held in Philadelphia in order to discuss British Parliament's establishment of the Coersive Acts. 56 delegates from the colonies (with the exception of Georgia) drafted a decleration of rights and grievances for the king. However the Crown payed no attention to the colonial men so they later set up a Second Continental Congress. -
Lexington and Concord
The start of the Revolutionary War, British troops were sent to collect weapons from colonials only to be met with an angry militia of American citizens. Iconic to American History Paul Revere and other men sounded the alarm for battle against the Redcoats. They surpringly defeat the British and are confident enough to go to war. -
Second Contitental Congress
After the Revolutionary War had begun the delegates had met again with new members, for example Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock. They discussed the justification of the war with Britain and lead effort for the war. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's pamphlet titled Common Sense advocated independance from England. He largely influenced many Americans selling 500,000 pamphlets. He served in the U.S. military and worked in the committee of Foreign Affairs. He returned to Europe in 1787 and Fled to France for his political opinions on the revolution and was later arrested. -
Decleration of Independance
Five men including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were in charge of writting a formal statement declaring independence from Britain. The Decleration of Independence, whose primary author was Thomas Jefferson, was later adopted by Congress in July 4th, 1776. A most celebrated holiday for many Americans, and a reminder for a growing country.