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The Navigation Acts were a set of rules that the English Parliament imposed on the colonists. It made the colonists sell all raw materials to England. even though they might be able to find better prices elsewhere in England. -
The British law that imposes a heavy tax on sugar and rum. And the rum was imported into the American colonies to help protect the British West Indies. -
Fort Necessity was a small fort set up by George Washington in the spring of 1754 during the attack by the French and the native Americans. -
The French and Indian War was between Great Britain and France for control of the country. -
The Sugar Act was a British law designed to increase revenue from the American colonies to help pay off debts from the Seven Years' War. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on American colonists. -
The Townshend Acts of 1767 taxed items such as tea and glassware, angering American colonists and sparking protests. -
The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers shot into a crowd, killing five colonists. This event made many colonists angry and fueled the fight against British rule. -
Benedict Arnold's attempt to capture British-held Quebec City in late 1775 but failed -
The Olive Branch Petition was the Continental Congress's final, peaceful attempt in July 1775 to reconcile with Britain's King George III. -
As the new royal governor of Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Party, appointed by the British Crown to enforce the punitive Coercive Acts, Gage's takeover included shutting down the Boston port and tightening control over the government. -
George III hired 30,000 German soldiers, collectively known as Hessians, to fight for the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Quartering Acts were British laws of 1774 requiring American colonies to house and supply British soldiers. -
The Administration of Justice is the system of laws, courts, law enforcement, and correctional institutions that a government uses to provide fairness, resolve disputes, and enforce laws. -
The Quebec Act of 1774 was a British law that governed the Province of Quebec, expanding its territory, guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics, and allowing French civil law while adopting English criminal law. -
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies that took place in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774 -
Paul revere's ride was a crucial event at the start of the American Revolution. He, along with other riders, spread the alarm that British troops were marching from Boston to seize colonial military supplies in Concord and arrest Patriot leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War and are famously remembered as the events that started the conflict with the "shot heard 'round the world". -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that convened in Philadelphia in May 1775, after the Revolutionary War had begun. -
Fort Ticonderoga is a large 18th-century star fort located at a strategically important location near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first major engagement of the American Revolutionary War, fought on June 17 1775 during the Siege of Boston. -
The Declaratory Acts were laws. And that said, the British could make rules for the American colonies about anything. -
General George Washington's successful Siege of Boston in early 1776. -
The Continental Congress chose the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The parchment copy was signed by most delegates on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House.