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Quebeck Acts
passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. Response of the Quebec Act is often recognized as a source of increased American resentment towards British rule in North America. Along with other British legislation -
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1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
French And Indian War
A war fought over land it was the indians against the Indians and British and English, France was forced to give up almost all their land. -
Treaty Of Paris
Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. -
Proclamation Of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
This British law charged duties on sugar imported by the colonies. Several other products were also taxed they couldn't make things like rum, tea and anything sweet. In response all in total 50 letters were delivered to Parliament of angry people. -
Quartering Act
This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed. -
Stamp Act Congress
was a meeting held in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used and they were against this law because they were being taxed without representation. they drew up a "Declaration of the Rights of the Colonists." -
Declaratory Act
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
Charles Townshend passed the Townshend Acts to impose duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. So they can pay the war debt. -
Stamp Act
This British law required certain printed materials including newspapers in America be on paper produced in Britain and stamped with a revenue stamp.Colonial reaction to the Stamp Act ranged from boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors and much more. -
Boston Massacre
- British Army soldiers shot and killed 5 people while under attack by a mob.
- Crispus Attics was known as the first casualty in the american revolution.
- Troops claimed that they heard the commander Thomas Preston say the word fire and he was charged in court.
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Boston Tea Party
-The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams in Boston Massachusetts -The sons of liberty dressed up as indians and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea in to the Boston harbor As a result the British decided to close the Boston harbor and stop all trade this was known as the Intolerable acts -
Intolerable Acts
These were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.It stopped all trade at the Boston harbor -
2nd Continental congress
Created the continental army led by George Washington it also allowed Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independance and sent King George the Olive Branch Petition. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. The Battles of Lexington and Concord took a toll on both sides. For the colonists, 49 were killed, 39 were wounded For the British, 73 were killed, 174 were wounded. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill -
Common Sense
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. Written by Thomas Paine. -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.drafted by Thomas Jefferson,The president of Congress, John Hancock, and its secretary, Charles Thompson, immediately signed the handwritten draft
