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Also called The Seven Years' War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763.
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Proclamation from Britain after winning The Sevens Years war which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains
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New tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
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Also known as the First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City with an objective to devise a unified protest against new British taxation - specifically the Stamp Act of 1765.
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Also known as the Incident on King Street by the British,was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob
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A bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade.
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Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, in which they threw 342 chest of tea overboard into the harbor.
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Harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774; that were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protest
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Delegates from each of the 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge.
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Managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
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The battle was part of a British campaign to seize control of New York and thereby isolate New England from the rest of the colonies. The Americans were commanded by General George Washington
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Was one of the most consequential of the American Revolution. George Washington and his soldiers marched north from Trenton and attacked a British force south of the town. Washington's victory bolstered American morale and provided great confidence to his soldiers.
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Was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War
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The first constitution of the United States
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Was a vigorous effort by the British, after setbacks in the North, to quash rebellion in the Carolinas and Georgia.
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The British surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. This ended the American Revolutionary War.
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Was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.
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Started when the Congress turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for consideration through specially elected state conventions of the people
