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Start of the French-Indian War
A war fought for territory in America. The two sides were France and their Native American allies against England. -
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End of French-Indian War
A war fought for territory in America. The two sides were France and their Native American allies against England. -
Proclamation line of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Currency Act
Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
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. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty. -
The Quartering Act
the British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
Stamp Act Congress
in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it 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 virtually all business in the colonies, and was coming into effect November 1. -
Townshend Acts
series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies -
Boston Massacre
the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Committee of Correspondence
the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. Within a year, nearly all had joined the network, and more committees were formed at the town and county levels. -
Tea Act
the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston where they dumped all the tea in Boston into the bay. 90,000 pounds worth of tea waas lost. -
Intolerable / Coercive Acts
Intolerable is the term the colonies used. Coercive was the term Parliament used. These acts were passed as a direct response to the Boston Tea Party. The purpose was to pay for the 90,000 pounds worth of tea dumped into the bay , but the colonists viewed it as a way to punish them. -
The First Congressional Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
Lexington and Concord
"The shot heard round the world". The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Congressional Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the Olive Branch Petition, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States. -
The Declaration of Independence
Dcument announcing the colonies sucession from England and stated their reasons for leaving also referred to as grievances. -
Non-importation Resolutions
An act passed by congress to forbid importation of british goods.