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Bacon’s Rebellion
Cause: a grab for Native American lands was denied
Event: Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place in 1676. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists.
Aftermath: white planters reacted with alarm to the anger they had seen among the black Virginians who had joined Bacon's rebellion. -
Intolerable Acts
Cause: to make an example of the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, and the outrage they caused
Event: Crown tightens control of Massachusetts rebels by:
-Closing Boston ports
-Passing another Quartering Act
-Revoked colonial charter and lost self-rule
Aftermath: Unites all colonies in sympathy for Mass. and leads to further support of the rebellion
It was not repealed. -
Great Awakening
Cause: there were significantly fewer church attendances throughout the country,
Event: it was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.
Aftermath: were the decline of Quakers, Anglicans, and Congregationalists as the Presbyterians and Baptists increased. -
French and Indian War
Cause: because everyone wanted access to the Ohio River Valley and both sides believed they had claims to it.
Event: The French and Indian War was a conflict between the British and the Colonists with the French and Native Americans because everyone wanted access to the Ohio River Valley and both sides believed they had claims to it.
Aftermath: The British begin taxing the colonists to get rid of the massive debt they incurred following the war. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
Cause: to end French and Indian war
Event: The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence, and established borders for the new nation. The Treaty of Paris, formally ending the war, was not signed until September 3, 1783.
Aftermath: All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Cause: In response to Pontiac's Rebellion,
Event: the revolt of Native Americans led by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limits to colonial settlers.
Aftermath: closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia. -
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Cause: British policies in the Great Lakes region following the French
Event: Pontiac's Rebellion begins when a confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacks the British force in Detroit.
Aftermath: Eight forts were destroyed and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured, with many more fleeing the region. Hostilities came to an end after British Army expeditions in 1764 led to peace negotiations over the next two years. -
Quartering Act
Cause: response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.
Event: Provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers sent to defend colonies post
Aftermath: French & Indian War - Protests to British presence - Was not repealed, but expired in 1770 (a new one would replace it) -
Stamp Act
Cause: to pay the debt of the French and Indian war
Event: Tax on printed items- ads, diplomas, legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. (Needed proof of payment with a stamp.)
Aftermath: Boycotts of British goods and violent protests - Repealed in 1766 because boycotts hurt business -
Townshend Acts
Cause: were specifically to pay for the salaries of officials such as governors and judges
Event: Import tax on tea, lead, glass, and dyes (commonly used items); enforced with search warrants called "writs of assistance"
Aftermath: Colonists boycotted again, colonial courts refused to issue the writs, and led to protests Partially repealed, but kept a small tea tax -
Boston Massacre
Cause: 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 a British parliament that lacked American representation.
Event: British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by the mob in Boston
Aftermath: repeal the Townshend Acts and Withdrew the Tea act -
Tea Act
Cause: British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
Event: Gives British East India Co. tax-free imports of tea in America
Aftermath: Colonists fear a monopoly and losing their businesses, so they boycott British goods in cities like NY and Philadelphia. - The Boston Tea Party occurs in Massachusetts It was not repealed and the Intolerable Acts would be passed to punish Boston -
Boston Tea Party
Cause: taxation without representation
Event: Britain eventually repealed the taxes it had imposed on the colonists except for the tea tax. It wasn't about to give up tax revenue on the nearly 1.2 million pounds of tea the colonists drank each year
Aftermath: American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," Dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British India Company into the harbor -
First Continental Congress
Cause: measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes
Event: delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
Aftermath: The Congress also passed the Articles of Association, which called on the colonies to stop importing goods from the British Isles. -
Common Sense
Cause: support of the Patriot cause
Event: common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
Aftermath: played a remarkable role in transforming a colonial squabble into the American Revolution.