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French and Indian War
The French and the Indians fought the English in the Americas. They fought over land they both claimed. The war was between 1754 and 1763 -
Proclamation Line of 1763
After the English won the war they set a line to keep colonists from moving past the mountains. They did this to keep the colonists safe from the Indians. -
Sugar Act
An act passed by the British that taxed the colonists on Sugar -
Committees of Correspondence
This encouraged the colonies opposition to Britain's stiffening customs. -
Quartering Act
This act required the colonists to take care of British soldiers in their own home. -
Currency Act
This Act regulated the money of the the colonists. These acts sought to protect British merchants from being paid in depreciated colonial currency -
Stamp Act
This was the first internal tax levied directly to American colonists. This act put a tax on all paper documents. -
Stamp Act Congress
The colonists met to devise a protest against the new British taxation. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
A secret society formed to protect the rights of colonists. -
Townshend Acts
This was an Act that taxed glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. The colonists saw it as an abuse of power. -
Non-importation Resolutions
The Colonial non-importation associations were organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants to boycott English goods. -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers shot men in an alley who were throwing snowballs. -
Tea Act
The act’s main purpose was not to raise money from the colonies but to bail out the East India Company, a key role in the British economy. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia that drafted a declaration of rights and grievances. -
Intolerable Acts
the act was meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). -
2nd Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent states, and no longer under British rule.