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french&indian war
the french and indian war started over: resources, and american land -
The Albany Plan of Union
It was a summit attended by representatives from seven of the thirteen British colonies in North America at that time. -
Treaty of Paris
The 1763 Treaty of Paris brought about the end of the French and Indian War and the Seven Years’ War, resulting in peace between Great Britain, Spain, and France. The treaty settled several questions regarding territories and colonies in the Americas. -
Proclomation of 1763
October 7, 1763 prompted the organization and control of the newly acquired French Territory in North America at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, or as American colonists would dub it, the French and Indian War -
Defeat of Washington
Washington's Defeat at Ft. Duquense/Ft. Necessity, Albany Plan of Union, Treaty of Paris -
Sugar Act
This act lowered the tax on malasses imported by the the colonist . -
Quartering Act
Quartering Acts The Quartering Acts refers to provisions passed by the British Parliament during the 18th century. Under these Acts, local colonial governments were forced to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the American colonies -
Sons of Liberty
It was 1765 when everything started. It was another year of suffering for the Colonists suffering under the wrath and dominance of the British army. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was held on October 19, 1765 in New York City. It was attended by twenty-seven representatives from what has been known throughout American history as the thirteen colonies. When the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, colonists were more than eager to show their displeasure towards it. -
Stamp Act
tax enforced by the Parliament of Great Britain on the colonies of then British America. The act called for printed materials within the colonies to be standardized using London-made stamp paper with embossed revenue stamps. Such printed materials comprise mostly of legal documents, newspapers, magazines and other types of paper used throughout the colonies. -
Daughter of Liberty
wanted women to vote. -
Declatory Act
the Declaratory Act was copied from the Irish Declaratory Act, and it won’t take a genius to learn that Parliament would want America, like the Irish, in continuous bondage to the crown. -
Townshed Act
Townshend Acts Charles Townshend
Photo by: Adamsk Creative Commons The Townshend Acts were a string of laws that passed at the onset of 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain that relates to the British colonies of North America -
Boston Massacre
Onthe night of March 5, 1770, members of the British Army killed five civilian men in Boston. This incident is known as the Boston Massacre, and is also called the Boston Riot. Aside from the lives lost, can you guess what this incident resulted to? If you are guessing fear among Colonists, then you are incorrect. But if you guessed unrest among them, then your guess is certainly correct. The Boston Massacre, also known as “The Bloody Massacre in King Street” or the “State Street Massacre”, is -
Tea Act
One of the most controversial decrees made by the British Empire in all of American History was the Tea Act -
Committee of Correspondence
The history of America goes a long way back but many historians opt to start their notes with the Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies or the originals, which were British settlements in the new world, became sort of land and resource extensions rather than new independent states of the Dutch from its mother country, the Great Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
the Boston Tea Party of 1773 to the stirring of the American Revolution. Historians swore that without that single fateful event, the revolutionary war would have not have taken place at all or at the very least, would have been delayed for many decades more. -
Corcieve Acts
On 17 December 1773 a group of men dressed as Mohawk Indians dump 342 chests of East India Tea into Boston Harbor -
Quebec Acts
The Quebec Act of 1774 was a rule imposed by the British Parliament to set the new authority of the province of Quebec, which was another colony in North America in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War -
second contiental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnumbered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they searched for the supplies. At the North Bridge in Concord, approximately 500 militiamen fought and defeated three companies of the King's troops. The outnumbered regulars fell back from the "Minutemen" after a pitched battle in open territory. -
Bunker hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle, and was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the vast majority of combat took place on Breed's Hill. -
signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2.
