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Albany Congress
Commissioners representing seven British colonies in North America to with the Iriquious.Native Americans of Pennsylvania were resentful of a land purchase. -
Capture of Fort Necessity by te French
The engagement was one of the first battles of the French and Indian War and George Washington's only military surrender.The battle, along with the May 28 Battle of Jumonville Glen, contributed to a series of military escalations that resulted in the global Seven Years' War. -
General Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne
Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (modern-day downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War.It was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9. -
Recapture of Fort Dequesne and Battle of Quebec
The Battle of Fort Duquesne was a British assault on the eponymous French fort that was repulsed with heavy losses on 14 September 1758, during the French and Indian War.The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition. -
French and Indian War
This was a war between Great Britian, France, and North America.The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes.Warriors from numerous tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. -
Currency Act and Stamp Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.The Currency Act is the name of several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies. -
Stamp Act and Quartering Act
The Quartering Act is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.This first Quartering Act (citation 5 Geo. III c. 33) was given Royal Assent on March 24, 1765, and provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the Mutiny Act of 1765. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men.British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
First Continetial Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the coloOn December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbornies.