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Natural right .vs. Divine right.
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British settlers were pushing into the Ohio River Valley.
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The war began in August 1763 when Native Americans, offended by the policies of British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements.
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3 Branches of Government.
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The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America in 1754.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses.
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On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a royal proclamation that caused a furor amongst the colonists.
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Tax required on all printed materials.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston.
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The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.They had also threw 342 cases of tea in the Boston Harbor. They destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea!!!
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Three of the acts passed by Britain on this date were specifically designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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The orders brought by Braddock divested the colonial generals and field-officers of all rank while serving with British officers of the same grade, and made company officers subordinate to those of the regular army.
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Confirmation of the British advance was delivered to Lexington by Paul Revere and William Dawes.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10.
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The Olive Branch Petition was first drafted by Thomas Jefferson, but John Dickinson found Jefferson’s language too offensive. Dickinson rewrote most of the document, although some of the conclusion remained Jefferson’s.
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The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."
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The attack was to be a double pronged approach with Richard Montgomery leading a force from New York to take Montreal and Benedict Arnold taking his canoe army up along the river routes to Quebec City.
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The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable.
