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French and Indian war
french and indain war was fought from 1754 to 1763 between the britsih and french in north america.The Treaty of paris 1763 ended the war -
Proclamation Line
After the french and indain war the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. It was issued by george Washington The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was perceived as being beneficial to the Native American Indians and Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first Internal tax levied directly on american colonists by the british government. The act which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at time when british was in debt from the sevens years war. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in america following the french and indain war and pontiac's war.Like the stamp act of the same year This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. (1764) (1765). -
Townsend Acts
Series of four acts passed by the British parliament in an attempt to assert. The Townsend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by the British. -
Committee of Correspondence
Was The Network of individuals that kept people informed throughout the colonies created after Boston massacre.The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
The act had it purpose and its main purpose was to bail out the floundering east india company. A monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. This was what ultimately compelled a group of Sons of Liberty members on the night of December 16, 1773. The colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston tea party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.Samuel adams organized the tea party with about 60 members of the suns of liberty. -
Intolerable or Coercive Acts
After the Boston tea party, The coercive acts were a series of four acts by the British government.The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonian's for their Tea Party. -
"Shot Heard Around the World"
In April 1775, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.There were hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward concord, Massachusetts. No one as this day still don't know who fired the first shot, Several of the British soldiers were killed during the battle and the battle itself was considered the first victory in the fight for America. -
Common Sense
Thomas paine wrote common sense about the independence from great Britain people in the 13 colonies.most colonist considered themselves to be aggrieved britons, transforming into the american revolution -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document declaring the us to the independent of the British crown.Jefferson was a member of a five-person committee appointed by the Continental Congress to write the Declaration. The committee included Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
