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The French and Indian War
A series of battles between Britain and France in North America. The colonist and Britian against the French and Native Americans. -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan to place the British North American Colonies under a more centralized government. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's rebellion begins with a confederacy of Native American Warriors under ottawa cheif Pontiac attack the British force at Detriot but failed in the initial attack. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III declared all land west of the Appalachian are off-limits to settlers. -
Currency Act
A law passed by British Parliament to regulate the issue and legal tender status of paper money in the colonial economy. -
Sugar Act
The act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. -
Stamp Act
A tax on the legal recognition of documents. -
Colonist Form Sons of Liberty
Patriot Paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act
Required the colonist to house the British troops in barracks provided by the colonies -
Declaratory Act
Stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
Imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
British Soldiers fired upon a crowd of rioters and five were killed. The British Soldiers were later arrested for manslaughter. This became a key role in patriotism. -
Tea Act
The acts main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonist but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty. They dressed as Indians and threw tea in the ship overboard. -
Quebec Act
To institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Intolerable Acts
Four punitive measures enacted by the British parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britian after the French and Indian War. -
1st Continential Congress
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continential Congress to organize colonial resistance to parliaments Coercive Acts. -
Patrick Henry "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
These words became a rally cry during the march to war that was soon to begin. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
British troops are sent to Confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. The militia defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise defeat bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
Second Continental Congress
The created the Continential Army putting George Washington in charge. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Although the British defeated the colonist in this battle it helped boost their confidence for the war. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine used this pamphlet as an argument in favor of American Independence.
