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John Locke wrote about the natural rights.
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A group of Brittish settlers move into the Ohio River Valley.
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The Spirit of the Laws argues for seperate powers.
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A war against the Britain and the French.
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The plan was proposed by Benjaman Franklin at the Albany Congress, it was an attempt at forming the colonies under one government as far as might be necessary for defense during the French and Indian War.
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Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne. It was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9. The expedition was named after General Edward Braddock
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Americans invade Brittish Quebec but are defeated.
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Pontiac attacks Brittish forts but fail in the end.
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The proclamation provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists. The proclamation also established or defined four new colonies.
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A law that put taxes on certain items such as sugar.
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A law that forced colonists to buy special stamps to sell.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws made in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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The Boston Massacre was an incident when the soldiers were killing and wounding inicent people because they got tired of some people rebeling against the attempt to enforce unpopular Parlimentary legislation. Paul Revere went around warning people that the Brittish are coming.
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It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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Bostin colonists dumped the British Government's tea into the Bostin Harbor
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Four strict laws that were made after the Boston Tea Party.
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The Battles of Lexington were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies.
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A battle led by George Washington to run the Brittish out of Boston.
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A document made to make peace with britain by Thomas Jefferson.
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The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
