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french and indian war
The french and Indian war was fought from 1754-1763 between the British and french in North America. The treaty of Paris 1763 ended this. -
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Road to Revolution
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Proclamation Line
The proclamation line was issued by King George lll following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/ Seven year's war. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed by the British parliament. They wanted the American colonist to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
Parliament passes the the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American Colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts constituted an attempt by the British government to make stronger fiscal power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was pre-revolutionary incident that occurred on March 5, 1770, British Soldiers, who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American Civilians in the Boston Massacre -
Committee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen colonies. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a 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. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party Political protest in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
intolerable or Coercive Acts
The intolerable or coercive acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea party and other protests. -
"Shot Heard Around The World"
The embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn" and refers to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine. He wanted people to think about what was happening. He explained that the people must fight against the unfair and unjust ways of King George III and the British Parliament. -
Declaratory Act
Stamp act try to put and end but on the that day the Parliament passes the Declaratory Act asserting its right to make laws binding on the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of independence is a important part of of American democracy because it contains the ideals goals and liberty of our nation,
