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End of The French and Indian War
Also called The Seven Years' War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation from Britain after winning The Sevens Years war which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains -
The Stamp Act of 1765
New tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
The Quartering Act of 1765
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies -
Stamp Act Congress
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. -
Boston Massacre
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 -
Tea Act of 1773
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. -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, in which they threw 342 chest of tea overboard into the harbor. -
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts 1774
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 -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each of the 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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. -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
New York Campaign
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 -
Battle of Princeton
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. -
Battle of Saratoga
Was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War -
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the United States -
Southern Campaign
Was a vigorous effort by the British, after setbacks in the North, to quash rebellion in the Carolinas and Georgia. -
Battle of Yorktown
The British surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. This ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Constititional Convention
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. -
Ratification of the constitution
Started when the Congress turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for consideration through specially elected state conventions of the people
