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French-Indian War
The French Indian War started 1756, the reason why the war started was because American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future. because the French had the Upper Ohio River Valley but they also wanted to trade it with the Americans and control it.The Treaty of Paris ended the French Indian War in 1763. -
Navigation Acts
All started because the Navigation acts no country could trade goods with the colonies; only English ships had to be used for goods/trade. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act is a tax that King George III imposed on the American colonies; it taxed things like newspapers, almanacs, legal documents, dice, and other things. But it was to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act of the American colonies that basically helped provide the British soldiers with supplies like food, drinks and shelters. The act was one of Intolerable Acts passed as a reprisal to the Boston Tea Party. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts is a tax that imports tax on many things but the main thing was tea. The Tea Act allowed Britain to export tea directly to the colonies at a lower price but colonists felt that this was a trick to get them to buy it and pay a lower tax because it was to help pay for the salaries of officials such as governors and judges. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre in Boston on king street there was a fight between the British soldiers and the colonists/people that all started over an argument between the British and colonists that got out of hand and the soldiers began shooting colonists/people. This was a turning point in America's quest for independence. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party happened because taxation without representation, the Americans felt that they were being treated unfairly for taxing them to pay high wages; so the colonists got mad at Britain because of that and the British shut down the Boston Harbor because they waited until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
The Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)-Happen because of the Boston Tea Party so there were four laws that visited the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay because of what happened at the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”) because it was the “shot heard around the world” because everyone was surprised that the Americans declared war on England. All Happened because there was a gunshot fire someone did and so they made the British start fighting. And when it was ove British went back to Boston and injured/killed more people. -
Second Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress -They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief. Was a meeting of delegates from each of the thirteen American colonies. And to supply provisional governance for the colonies. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a petition that was sent by the citizens of British colonies in America to the British government and King George III to a last final attempt by American colonists to avoid war with England, basically wanting the two countries to be at peace. -
Common Sense
Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and Thomas' main idea was to advocate independence for the American colonies from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence -Basically explaining why colonists were declaring independence from Britain. And the theory of natural rights. -
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation -An agreement for all the 13 states of the United States of America to make a change. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion -It was a series of violent attacks on the courthouses/government properties in Massachusetts that had led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787 about a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention) -A meeting in Philadelphia that was about the Articles of Confederation because they wanted to fix the Articles of Confederation but couldn't so they created a new constitution.