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Mercantilism
Mercantilism is the theory of exporting more goods and crops than you are importing. Colonies throughout the 1600s used this theory to thrive and be successful. Their main goal was to become a self-sufficient colony. -
Salutary Neglet
As long as the colonies remained economic loyalty England would relax its enforcement of most regulations. This kept the economy flowing between England and the colonies. -
French and Indian War
Britain and France were both struggling for control of the new world. Each country trying desperately to gain more territory. Unfortunately the French lost this war and most of their land in the Americas along with it. -
Proclamation of 1763
This proclamation banned all settlements west of the Appalachian mountains. The British, however, had no way of enforcing this law. resulting in colonists moving westward anyways. -
The Stamp Act of 1765
Parliament imposed a new tax on the colonists that required them to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper. -
The Quartering Act
Parliament enacted the local governments to order people to give the troops home and accomidations. -
The Stamp Act of Congress of 1765
A formal gathering, consisting of representatives from a few British colonies, to protest against new British taxation. -
The Declaratory Act of 1766
Stated that the British's Parliament had the same right to tax in the Americas as it did in the British. -
The Townshend Acts
Indirect taxes, or duties levie on imported materials. These acts also placed a three-penny tax on tea, the most popular drink in the colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
Group of colonists gathered in protest against the British soldiers. The British felt scared so one of them shot a colonist, causing major problems in the future. -
The Tea Act of 1773
This act granted the British East India Company a monopoly in the Americas for tea. -
The Boston Tea Party of 1773
The Sons of Liberty came together and threw tea into the Boston harbor as a protest against the tea act. -
First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve colonies. -
The Coercive/Intolerable Acts
A series of punitive laws made after the Boston tea party in attempt to punish the colonists. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies. -
Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense
A panphlet that inspired people in the colonies to fight back against the British. -
The Declaration of Independence
A document that stated the thirteen colonies were now regarding themselves as newly independent sovereign states. -
The American Revolution Ends
Treaty of Paris ended the war. Colonists for the most part had won their independence from Britain. -
The Treaty of Paris
Document that ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.
