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Currency Act
(1751-1764) One of several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. Sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency -
Albany Plan of Union
Albany Plan of Union- July 10, 1754 in Albany New York was a plan that was suggested by Benjamin Franklin a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania worked together to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies. -
French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years War. Was a North American conflict in a large imperial war between Great Britain and France ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Major Henry Gladwin, British commander of Fort Detroit, foils Ottawa Chief Pontiac’s attempt at a surprise attack. Romantic lore holds that Gladwin’s Seneca mistress informed him of the western Indians’ plans for an uprising. -
Proclamation of 1763 (colonists reaction)
On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War -
Sugar Act
Also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act. Aimed to end the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses in French, Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues enlarged British empires responsibilities following the French and Indian War. Protests were received from America against the enforcement of the molasses act, together with a plea that duty be set at one penny per gallon. -
Stamp Act
(1765) Was passed by the British Parliament the new act imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. (examples: ship’s papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards) -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
(1765) Created in the thirteen colonies was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fought taxation by the British government. Played a major role in most colonies in battling the stamp act. -
Quartering Act
May 3, 1765) Provided soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing, also provided to provide food for any British soldier in the area. Soon became a source of tension between the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies and government in London, England This would soon fuel the fires that led to the Revolutionary War. -
Declaratory Act
(1766) Declaration by the British that accompanied the repeal of the stamp act. Stated that the British parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. By repealing the distasteful stamp act increased colonial alarm, and each new regularly act added to the colonists fear of the parliamentary threat to well-established colonial institutions for self-government. -
Townshend Act
(1767) Was a series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
(March 5, 1770) Street fight between a patriot (revolutionaries, Contientials, Rebels, or American Whigs) mob and a squad of British soldiers. They threw snowballs, sticks, and stones several colonists were killed this led to campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry and it led to the Royal Governor to evacuate the occupying army from the town of Boston. Soon it would bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
Tea Act
Was passed by parliament on May 10, 1773 granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American Colonies.This caused a group of Sons of Liberty members to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three ships moored in the Boston Harbor and destroyed over 92,000 pounds of tea. -
Quebec Act
the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. -
Intolerable Acts
the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Patrick Henry's Give me liberty or give me death speech
He was urging the American colonies to revolt against England. Henry spoke only a few weeks before the Revolutionary War began: “Gentlemen may cry Peace, Peace, but there is no peace. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
the British defeated the Americans in Massachusetts. -
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
