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A meeting Jefferson held to talk about the approaching conflict with France and alliances with the Iroquois -
Washington lead a militia into the Ohio Valley to challenge French expansion and after an unsuccessful assault Washington surrendered. This was the start of the seven years war -
A war between the Colonists and the French that the Colonists won most of Frances land from and boosted their morale but lead to a large amount of debt
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A peace agreement between France and the Colonies giving them the Frenches land in the West Indies, Canada, and the land west of the Mississippi except New Orleans
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In an attempt to prevent wars with Natives for economic reasons Britain set this law in place to keep colonists from expanding west of the Appalachian mountains -
Placed taxes on foreign sugar and luxury items as well as a companion law enforcing the navigation act and stopping the smuggling of sugar -
Chief Pontiac led a rebellion against the colonies over them encroaching on their land -
required colonists to provide food and living quarters to British soldiers stationed in the colonies -
The revolt against the stamp act got more violent as some turned to violence or harassment of tax officials to repeal the stamp act -
The first direct tax on the colonists that put a stamp on all paper documents in the colonies -
Representatives of nine colonies met in New York to create the Stamp Act Congress so their own elected representatives had legal authority of the taxes -
The stamp act was repealed after a new prime minister of Britain replaced Grenville -
This act was passed by Britain so parliament was asserted that they had the ability to tax the colonists what they wanted
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A act enacting taxes on colonial imported goods such as tea,glass, and paper it also allowed a writ of assistance which are search warrants given to search private homes for smuggled goods. -
Letters written by John Dickinson that parliament could regulate commerce of the colonies but it would had to have approval of assembly including colonial representation to tax
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James Otis and Samuel Adams wrote these essays urging colonists to petition parliament to repeal the Townshend acts. The British official in Boston ordered the letters retracted -
The act was repealed after the Kings Minister was changed and because it caused damage to trade and made little revenue
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5 colonial citizens were killed in gunfire in Boston when British troops opened fire in the streets. the six soldiers were put to trial 4 were acquitted and the other two were charged with manslaughter -
A British ship that was burned by colonists dressed as indians when it was ran aground in Rhode Island -
The British gave the East Indian Company the ability to give tea to the colonists with a tax -
Colonists dressed as Mohawk Natives climbed aboard a British ship and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
Expanded Quebec's boundaries in the Ohio River Valley and recognized Roman Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec
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The coercive Acts were four Acts passed in 1774 to punish the people of Boston and Massachusetts
1.Port Act- closed the Boston port prohibiting trade
2.Massachusetts Government Act- reduced Massachusetts governments power
3. Administration of Justice Act-Allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in Britain
4. Quartering Act- expansion of the act -
All of the colonies except for Georgia sent delegates to a convention to respond to what the delegates viewed as Britain infringing on their liberties -
General Thomas Gage a British commander of troops in Boston sent an army to seize military supplies in Concord. Paul Revere and William Dawes rode into Concord and warned them of the British. The British militia was forced to retreat leading to 250 casualties -
This took place at a convention in Philadelphia after the fights breaking out in Massachusetts. The delegates were divided where mainly the New England area wanted Independence but the Midwest wanted to work things out with Britain. Congress adopted a declaration of the cause and necessities for taking up arms to provide troops building an army and navy -
On the outskirts of Boston a colonial militia fortified Breeds Hill next to Bunker Hill. The British sent three waves of troops to try to take the fort. They succeeded in taking the fort but took a considerable amount of casualties compared to the colonists -
This was a petition the Continental Congress gave to the king to reconcile and plead their allegiance. The king rejected this petition
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The British king declared the colonies in rebellion cutting trade and shipping between them and the colonies
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Thomas Paine wrote the Common sense pamphlet argued against the king and that the colonists should be independent from Britain -
A declaration mostly drafted by Jefferson that listed grievances with the king and basic human rights
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A weak centralized government that put most of its powers in the state and had no ability to tax it was adopted in 1777
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The peace treaty that ended the war
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These two plans were plans made to create how representation was made in the new constitution. The Virginia plan favored larger states by making representation in the house of representatives by population where as the New Jersey plan favored small states by making representation equal. as a compromise the representation was by population but slaves counted as three fifths a freed person and the Senate would have two people each
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The constitution was a new centralized government and was wanted by federalists and opposed by the anti federalists. this new government fixed all grievances with the articles like no taxation
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Needed by the antifederalists to agree to the constitution. this document protected rights from the new government and protected the people from what they thought was a corrupt government. Ten were ratified first in 1789
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A treaty written by John Jay and the British as a treaty to come to neutral terms with them. Jay returned with a treaty but many Americans were upset as it was not all of what they wanted