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Treaty Of Paris
This ended the war between the French and Indians. France had to give up all of their colonies in North America as well. -
Proclamation Act
The proclamation act was issued by King George III after beating the French in the 7 Years War. The act stated you can not settle past the line by the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
This act was passed by Great Britain that allowed them to add taxes to sugar going into the Americas -
The Quatering Act
This act says that all the people in the American colonies had to house and feed any British soldier. -
The Stamp Act
This act made it so that stamps needed to be put on newspapers and letters. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was a meeting the First Congress of the American Colonies had to discuss the taxes Britain was putting on them -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Declaration of rights and grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act congress and finished passed on October 19th, 1765. This declared all tax on the colonists. -
Stamp Act Repealed
This is where the Stamp act got repealed and the sugar act got changed. -
Declaratory Act
This was the act that made the Stamp Act get repealed and the sugar act get changed. -
Townshend Act
This was the series of acts that Britain placed on the Colonists. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre occurred on march 5 1770 it was between a patriot mob and the british soldiers. Several colonists were killed and no british soldiers died. -
Boston Tea Party
This is when the Colonists took over a shipment of Tea and dumped over a Million dollars in tea. -
Commitee of Correspondence
The Committee of Correspondence was a shadow government created by the leaders of the colonies to eve over the war. The first meeting was in march of 1773. -
Tea Act
The tea act was considered the final straw of all the laws and acts that the British Parliament created. This act ultimately lead the the Boston tea party -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts were what the patriots called the series of punitive laws that the British passed in 1774. The British did this to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting between delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies. They all meet on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord were the first military battles in the war, it started on April 19, 1775 -
Bunker Hill
The first big battle was fought here during the Revolutionary war in June of 1775. -
The Appeal to Reason Rejected
The Appeal to Reason Rejected was adopted by the second continental congress on July 5th, 1775. This was the final attempt to avoid a war. -
Common Sense
This was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired the Americans to fight for their freedom and Independance. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration is the fomal document written by Tomas Jefferson that said that the 13 colonies were no longer under the control of the British. This document was signed on July 4, 1776
