Steps to the Revolutionary War

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  • Mercantilism

    The theory of exporting more than you import. A favorable balance of trade. Trading raw materials with Great Britain for processed goods.

  • Salutory Neglect

    Meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. Led to self-government in the colonies.

  • French and Indian War

    Start of French and Indian War. The British and French fought against eachother. Both sides had Native Americans fighting with them. Fought over land and trade. Ended in 1763.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Issued on October 9th, 1763. Britain prohibits American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.

  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Required colonists to pay tax on every piece of paper that they printed.

  • Quartering Act

    Required the colonists to let the soldiers live in their house. Required them also to feed them along with housing.

  • Stamp Act Congress of 1765

    A meeting held between October 7th and October 25th of the first elected representatives of the colony. Came up with a plan to protest the tax from the government.

  • Declaratory Act of 1766

    The repeal of the stamp act.

  • Townshend Acts

    Acts used to collect revenue from the colonists through taxation. Colonists did not like this.

  • The Boston Massacre

    The British Soldiers killed 5 men and injured 6 others on King Street. There was a protest and it got heated and with orders the British shot into the crowd of colonists.

  • Tea Act of 1773

    Goal was to help the British East India Company. These taxes on the tea on top of the townshend acts made the colonists furious. Was meant to reduce smuggling in North American also.

  • Boston Tea Party of 1773

    Protest by the Sons of Liberty. They boarded a ship of the East India Company and threw chests of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.

  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Acts that were made after the Boston Tea Party. Meant to punish the colonists. Colonists called them the Intolerable Acts and Britain called them the Coercive Acts. Took away Massachusetts self-government and historic rights.

  • First Continental Congress

    Delegations from 12 colonies, Georgia was absent, met in Carpenter's Hall in Pennsylvania. Tried to appeal the Intolerable Acts. It didn't work and a Second Continental Congress had to be called.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord (American Revolution Begins)

    First step to the American Revolutionary War. Fought in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Marked the armed conflict of the 13 colonies and Great Britain.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Delegates from all 13 colonies. Managed the colonial war effort. Moved toward independence by adopting the US Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. Met soon after American Revolutionary warfare had begun.

  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine

    Published on January 10th, 1776. Inspired people to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. Explained the advantages of and need for immediate independence. Had the largest sale of any book published in American History.

  • Declaration of Independence

    13 colonies were at war with Great Britain. Wrote this and declared their independence from Great Britain. Formed a new nation, United States of America. Thomas Jefferson composed original draft for it. 56 delegates signed it.

  • American Revolution Ends

    Treaty of Paris came about.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ended the American Revolutionary War. A peace treaty. obtained larger boundaries for the colonies.