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French and Indian War
The war between the French and British, each aided by different Indian tribes, that formed part of the North American Seven Years’ War -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was perceived as being beneficial to the Native American Indians and Great Britain but as detrimental to the colonists. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies -
Stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Quartering Act
Designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America -
Townshend Act
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men -
Tea Act
British Law passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company’s monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price -
Boston Tea Party
An engraving of American colonists dressed as Native Americans throwing trunks of the cargo that was on the British tea ships into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Representatives from each colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia. The royal governor in Georgia succeeded in blocking delegates from being sent to the congress. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British intolerable acts -
Lexington and Concord
when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons -
Second Continental Congress
met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Declaration of Independence
The document that established the United States as a nation -
Battle of Yorktown
significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown -
Articles of Confederation
first written constitution of the United States -
New Constitution
America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens -
Bill Of Rights
first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
