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The Enlightenment
An Age where people stopped listening to the church and started with reason and science.
Rating: 4
People started to have their own ideas on what a government should do and not do -
French and Indian War
A war fought between the British and French which the British won, but left them in major debt.
Rating: 7
the war itself was not that big a deal, but the debt that came with it made the British start taxing the colonies -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Stated that Colonists could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans
Rating:4
Not many colonists listened to this because there was no way for the Brirish to inforce it. -
Stamp Act
A tax that the British imposed on all of the colonists saying that all printed documents had to have a stamp on them. The colonists responded by boycottig British goods and the British eventually repealed the act.
Rating: 6
The act was unfair, but the british repealed it to keep relations good with the colonists -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers opened fire on a mob surrounding them, killing 5 people
Rating: 9
The colonists were furious and exaggerated what actually happened -
Tea Act
The British created a tax on tea, and because the colonists were only allowed to trade with the British, this made the 13 colonies mad.
Rating: 7
the tea act further angered the colonies -
Boston Tea Party
A protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, where men dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea off British ships into the Boston harbor.
Rating:6
After the Brirish found out they passed the "Intolerable Acts" which angered the colonists further. -
The Intolorable Acts
The Intolorable Acts were Acts that the British made to punish the 13 colonies because of the Boston Tea Party. These included no trial by jury, the Quartering Act (colonists were forced to house and feed british soldiers) and the blockade of Boston.
Rating: 8
because the British were being unfair to all of the colonies to punish each one of them. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting held in response to the "Intolerable Acts" implimented by the British, where 56 members of the 13 colonies wrote a petition to King George III
Rating: 4
because the congress was trying reasonable actions to take instead of war -
Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
Rating:10
This was the start of the war -
Second Continental Congress
The second continental congress met in Philidelphia and talked about the war effort. They also hinted at becoming an independent country. -
Declaration of Independence
On July 4th, 1776 The United States of America declared it's independence from the British, because the colonists thought they were being treated unfairly
Rating: 10
because the colonists said that they were no longer part of the british empire and were no longer under their rule.
