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French and Indian war
Also known as the Seven years war, the french and indian war initiated in Pennsylvania. The events that lead to this war were between France and Great Britain which was about territory, resources and trade routes. This event involved all the European powers. This resulted in a massive dept that forced king George and parliament to tax the colonists. -
Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian war, the British issued a proclamation. The royal proclamation was mainly to pacify Indians by checking intrusion of settlers on their lands. Although , the British began to grip it's power along it's self governed colonies. This affected all thirteen colonies, which caused a revolt of Native Americans. -
Sugar act
Also known as the American Revenue Act, this act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on the American colonies in order to increase income due to the immense dept the British suffered by. As an outcome, the Sugar act created a new court system for which evaders of the law were to be tried by trail. The Sugar Act became a restrain to illegal smuggling and helped reduce trade between the colonies and the rest f the western world. -
Stamp act
The British thought it was necessary to have a standing army in america for any potential invasion. With this mindset they issue a taxation measure legislated to raise revenues. This was not a good move since this was the major cause of the revolution, " taxation without representation." The colonists responded to the act with outrage and violence. -
Quartering Act
This act made provisions for British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists. It is also linked to the causes of the American Revolution. Although, during the war there was not source of quartering and provisioning of troops the British looked fro new ways to tax the colonies to compensate their soldiers and have a standing army. This taxation generated aggravated colonists. -
Townshend Act
The members of the British government were not amused by the disobedience of the colonies and their people which the stamp act created. Charles Townshend, developed a new plan to make money off the colonies. The act imposed an indirect tax on the colonists that he called duties. Although this seemed like the proper salvation for revenue the Townshend act led to new protests in the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Boston inhabitants thought British troops as foreign enemies and didn't like their presence. The soldiers knew this train of thought. Resentment was binary. Name calling , fights and arguments between Boston inhabitants and the soldiers were common until one soldier struck a colonist. A crowd gathered surrounding the soldier launching snowballs and insults. The situation dilated rapidly to the extend that the soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five men. -
Committees of Correspondence
Made to coordinate responses to England and share their plans alongside with being shadow governments organized by Patriots leaders of the thirteen colonies on the eve of the American Revolution the committees of correspondence was instrumental in setting up the first continental congress, which of course me in Philadelphia. As a result, the committees of correspondence rallied opposition, established plans for collective action, and disseminating the colonial interpretation of the British. -
Tea Act
This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.This would decrease the price of the tea and encourage colonists to stop smuggling the tea. Less smuggling would result in augmented tax money. The colonists sneaked onto three tea filled ships in the harbor and dumped chests on Boston Harbor disguised as Indians. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. Some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea act. They destroyed an entire shipment of tea. They boarded the ship and dropped the tea off into Boston Harbor. British government responded harshly and continued to pass more acts to try and regain control over their colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
The British believed that the colonists should pay a part of the cost of the French and Indian War. Parliament forced taxes on the colonists. The colonists retaliated with childish actions which the British didn't appreciate. Parliament wanted more control over the colonies. so they issued a series of acts to punish the colonists and bring them back into submission to the king. The consequences and effects were a closed port, forced to allowed entrance to home by soldiers ,etc. -
First Continental Congress
This congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The reason they assembled was to respond to the intolerable Acts. Also were to punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party. In final terms, they petitioned king George and also called for another continental congress due to their unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the intolerable acts. -
Lexington and Concord
Rigidity between residents of the thirteen colonies and the British authorities had been building for many years , especially in Massachusetts. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were rapidly retreating under brutal fire. The colonists thank these minor battles for later winning their independence. -
Second Continental Congress
In Philadelphia , Pennsylvania there was convention meeting to managed the colonial war effort. The declaration of independence lead the convention to incrementally adopt and advance towards independence which were it's leading elements. In result, it became a government of what soon was to be the united states by raising armies, appointing diplomats, directing strategy, and making formal treaties. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's ideas of freedom and independence were the leading reasons he published his pamphlet ," Common Sense," to portray his argument on the separation of the colonies and Great Britain in favor of American independence. This 47-page pamphlet was written in Philadelphia. In effect, this influenced and unified average citizens and political leaders. -
Declaration of Independence
Olive branch ignored by King George, angered colonists by new taxes , common sense written by Thomas Paine claiming colonists and their separation of Great Britain , and hostilities breaking onto war at Lexington and concord Massachusetts were leading factors for declaring independence. It was signed in Philadelphia. This made america an independent nation and other nations used the document as an example for their own independence.