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Columbus sailed west to trade and he discovered the New World. If Columbus hadn't come to trade, Jamestown and the British Colonies wouldn't be around. -
Colonists came from Europe looking for freedom and profit. Because Jamestown had a lot of resources, they were later able to send resources back to the motherland for manufactured goods. -
They formed the New England colony when they settled in Plymouth. The Pilgrims settled in Plymouth for more religious freedom. -
The French and Indian War was a battle between the French and Natives, against the British and the Colonies. This was important because the aftermath of the war created taxes. -
The Albany Plan of Union was when Ben Franklin proposed the idea that the colonies should join together and fight the battle, but the colonies declined the offer. -
The Treaty of Paris was when the French surrendered all their land to the British. This was important because the colonies were able to expand. -
The Proclamation of 1763 is when the king said the colonists couldn't settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, so all the land they fought for they lost. -
The Stamp Act was when the British assembly pressed the law of buying a stamp after every paper purchased. This resulted in many protests which later lead to it being resigned. -
The American Revolution gained our independence after the many battles fought.
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The Quartering Act was when parliament made colonists except solders in there home and gave them food and a shelter. This lead to even more protests and the Townshend Act. -
The Townshend Act was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. The Declaration signed off our independence. -
The Tea act of 1773 was when the British Parliament gave the East India Company a tax break where the teas tax was brought down so it was less expensive than the smuggled Dutch tea. It was important because it sparked the American revolution. -
The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was when a group of men called the Sons of Liberty, who went against the Tea Act boarded the ships that had imported taxed teas and destroyed all the chest and threw them into the canal. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws that was intended to do something but caused a major reaction from the colonists. -
The first Continental Congress was a group of people who hoped to avoid war and favored a policy of economic coercion. They decided on acceptable forms of colonial protest and placed sections on Britain on non-imported British goods. -
The second Continental Congress's defense created the Continental Army and then named George Washington commander. -
The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the American War of Independence. -
Thomas Paine argued that Common Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Shays's rebellion was a violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787, Shays' Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. -
The constitution was written in 1778 than ratified in 1788. It is now the longest surviving written part of our government. -
The Whiskey Rebellion in 1792 was caused when more tax was put on whiskey and they started using whiskey as a currency. Rebellions went to western Pennsylvania ready to attack until Washington sent troops to defend. -
The XYZ Affair involved an American peace delegation in France, three agents of the French Foreign Minister and the French Foreign Minister's demand for a bribe from the American delegation. -
The War of 1812 was fought between the U.S. and the British. This impacted the U.S. by showing they have power because they won the war.