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Founding of the Colonies
The English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian, the colonies that became the united states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, 1607, in Europe there was competition for finding land, the British took the land the colonists wanted -
French and Indian war
French and the British, a war, Europe and North America, 1750s, Colonists wanted French land The British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French held territory of North America -
"No Taxation Without Representation"
The american colonists, a slogan used in protest, thirteen colonies, 1761, they were being taxed without any real reason other than their protesting against the taxes -
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Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Currency Act, Stamp Act
George III, George Grenville, and Sons of Liberty, an act is when the government takes action usually putting tax or a law on something to punish them America British soldiers getting anything they want from the colonists not letting the colonists have their own currency, 1763–1766, to refill Parliament’s empty Treasury, the colonists wanted to keep there money of course -
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams and John Hancock organized the sons of liberty, A secret paramilitary group that organized the Boston tea party, thirteen colonies, 1765, To end the British ruling over the colonists, they convinced colonists to want to end everything the British were doing -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty, a protest, Boston Massachusetts, December 16, 1773, to end the tea act, the colonists already started protesting for one freedom there not giving up just yet -
Intolerable Acts
The British, taxes, thirteen colonies, 1774, to punish the colonists for protests, they were unfair -
Boston Blockade
British, an act on Boston residents, Boston Massachusetts, 1774, for the tea wasted in the Boston tea party -
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First Continental Congress
Delegates from twelve colonies, a meeting, Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, September 5 to October 26, 1774, the intolerable acts -
Lexington and Concord
Colonists and the British, A battle that started the american revolution, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775, there was a lot of tension between the colonists and the British while the colonists were being taxed by the British government, no one wants war -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine, A pamphlet, thirteen colonies, January 10, 1776, to advocate independence from Great Britain -
Paul Revere’s “Ride”
Henry Wadsworth, a poem, N/A, 1861, to commemorate Paul Revere