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The Codes were a series of laws passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses that regulated the interactions between slaves and citizens. Some of the laws were: slaves could not be away from their owner's premises without permission; they could not assemble unless a white person was present; they could not own firearms; they could not be taught to read or write, etc
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This was known as the New York Slave Rebellion and it was a more known slave revolt because it resulted in six suicides and twenty-one executions.
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This slave rebellion took place in South Carolina and was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 Africans killed. It was also one of the last major slave rebellions.
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The first battle began with a raid by New French against the British port of Canso. The conflict lasts for four years and takes heavy toll in battle in Main and Fort Louisbourg.
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The signing of this treaty formally ended King George's War between France, Great Britain and their Indian allies in New England and Nova Scotia.
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Also known as the 7 Years War, the French Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, including their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
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This Proclamation made by King George III limited the westward expansion of the American colonies.
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The Sugar Act placed a duty on various products in the British colonies, including lumber, food, molasses, and rum.
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On September 1, 1764 British Parliament passed the Currency Act to control the use of paper money in the New England colonies. The Act sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency.
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British Parliament passed the Stamp Act regulations to pay for British troops in the American colonies, and to cover debts made during the French and Indian War.
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Nine American colonies hold a Stamp Act Congress in New York and create a Declaration of Rights against taxation without representation.
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Additional levies were put on goods in American colonies by the British Government when the Townshend Acts are enacted, including levies on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea. They all would be repealed in three years, except for the tax on tea.
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The Boston Massacre occured when British troops fired into a Boston mob, who were protesting against British troops. The first to fall was Crispus Attucks, a fugitive slave and merchant seaman near the front, followed by four other men amongst the forty-fifty patriots. This event was later credited as the first battle in the American Revolution, which began five years later, and was used as an incident to further the colonists cause of rebellion.
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This was an incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. This was a form of American rebellion against the British government and their British Tea Tax
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These laws were passed in response to the defiance of the american colonists towards the British government during the Boston Tea Party.
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They met in Philadelphia, with 56 delegates representing every colony except Georgia. Delegates include Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Samuel Adams to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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War of independence fought between Great Britain and the 13 British colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America. Battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, between the British Army and colonial minutemen, mark the beginning of the war. The continental army spends a brutal winter at war and a following spring at Valley Forge PA. After a long battle British General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Va.
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Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in the Treaty of Paris, which officially brings the war to a close.
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Farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina take up arms to protest high state taxes and stiff penalties for failure to pay.
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The Bill of Rights included different amendments, and each covered various rights that were guaranteed to American citizens, including freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment and freedom not to incriminate oneself at trial etc.
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