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Two Treatises on Government-John Locke
John Locke wrote about the natural rights. -
Brittish Settler Move Into the Ohio River Valley
A group of Brittish settlers move into the Ohio River Valley. -
The Spirit of the Laws-Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws argues for seperate powers. -
French and Indian War
A war against the Britain and the French. -
Albany Plan of Union
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. -
General Broddock's Defeat
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 -
Attack on Quebec
Americans invade Brittish Quebec but are defeated. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac attacks Brittish forts but fail in the end. -
Proclamation of 1763
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. -
Sugar Act
A law that put taxes on certain items such as sugar. -
Stamp Act
A law that forced colonists to buy special stamps to sell. -
Townshend Acts
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. -
Boston Massacre
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. -
Tea Act
It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Bostin colonists dumped the British Government's tea into the Bostin Harbor -
The Intolerable Acts
Four strict laws that were made after the Boston Tea Party. -
Battles of Lexington
The Battles of Lexington were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A battle led by George Washington to run the Brittish out of Boston. -
Olive Branch Petitition
A document made to make peace with britain by Thomas Jefferson. -
Declaration of Independence
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
