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french and indian war
a war between new france and the colonies. lasted 7 years, england won and took control of the ohio river valley -
albany plan of union
benjamin franklins plan to unite the colonys to collect taxes to raise troops for the militia to fight british for independance -
george washington loss at ft duquense
washiongton went to get rid of french in ohio river valley and had a huge loss and had to surrender -
proclamation of 1763
law that says colonist couldnt settle past the ohio river valley -
suagr act
colonist had to pay a tax on imported molassas -
committee of corespondance
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. -
quartering act
a law that forced the colonists to give british soldiers a house, food and clothing -
sons of liberty
a society formed to protect the rights of the colonist and fight unfair taxation from the british -
daughters of liberty
The Daughters of Liberty was a group of 92 women who looked to rebel against British taxes by making home goods instead of buying them from the British. Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth] and other goods. -
stamp act congress
was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation -
stamp act
taxed almost all printed goods in the colonies -
townshend act
taxed glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies -
boston massacre
a riot provoked 5 guards and they fired upon te crowd and killed 2 and wounded 3 -
tea act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
corecieve acts
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts. -
first continential congress
The Congress was attended by 56 delegates appointed by the legislatures of the thirteen colonies which were hoping for British assistance with Native American problems on its frontier -
quebec act
setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. -
Lexington and concord
he Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
battle at bunker hill
While the result was a victory for the British, the massive losses they encumbered discouraged them from any further sorties against the siege lines; 226 men were killed with over 800 wounded, including a large number of officers. The battle at the time was considered to be a colonial defeat, however the losses suffered by the British troops gave encouragement to the colonies -
declaratory act
gave england power to tax the colonies -
second continential congress
he Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
signing of the declaration of independance
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
the first continential joke congress
what did the buffalo say to his child when he went off to college bi son -
treaty of paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
