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Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was an unorganized but widespread movement of evengelical christian sermons and church meetings ministers tried to renew the enthusiasm for religion through emotional and inspiring sermons. The Great Awakening changed the religious as well as the social political life in the colonies. It happened during the the 1730s and 1740s. Jonathan Edwards was a pastor and one of the most important leaders. Also there was George Whitefield who went seven times to the colonies touring. -
French And Indian War
The French and Indian War was impotant because they were both interested in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lake region. The French wanted to protect their profitable fur trade, while the British wanted part of the fur trade. The first settlers in the British colonies built communities and farms close to the Atlantic coastline or to major rivers. To the west of these early settlements was the vast frontier. This caused a war with the British and the French. -
Proclamation of 1763
Leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the fronti er if colonists kept moving to the Indian land. So the British issued the Pracamation of 1763. This banned any further British colonial settlement west of the Appalachin Mt. creating a line. It ordered colonists who had already moved to the upper ohio River walley to remove themselves. Many colonists hated the Proclamation. -
Sugar Act
The British needed more money. So they put taxes on sugar, wine, cofee. The colonists protested the act and called for a boycott on items with duties. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required colonists to purchase a stamp for newspaper ,pamphlets. Colonists formed sons of liberty boycottedgoods,and used violence to frighten tax collectors stamp act congress asked Parliament to repeal the act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in March 1766 then issued the declaratory act. -
Townshend Acts
Placed duties on Imprted glass,lead,paints, and tea. It made it easier for tax collectors to get rights of assistance. Colonists defied the act. The act was allowed to expire in 1770. -
Boston Massacre
Many Bostonians saw the presence of the British troops as a threat by the British goverement. The tension finally exploded march 5, 1770 a British and a civilian got in a fight. Bostonians revered to this as the Boston Masssacre. Some of the colonists agreeed with the local leader Samuel. -
Tea Act
In 1774 the tea act kept in place duties on imported tea and allowed the British East India Company to export directly to the colonies. Colonists used boycotts and Propaganda held the Boston Tea Party, and destroyed tea shipments in some colonies. Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. -
Boston Tea party
There were 3 ships that arrived in Boston Harbor with British tea in 1773. Liberty demanded that the ships leave without unloading their cargos. The govenor ordered them to unload their ships so then they just decided to anchor their ships for weeks. On the night December 16 a group of colonists disguised as Indians crept onto each of the ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts closed the Boston Harbor, and canceled massachusetts charter moved trials of colonial officials to Britan. This allowed new Quartering acts and Quebec Act which gave Canada control of the Ohio region. Colonists called for large-scale boycotts which published propaganda and convened the first continental congress. The act was repealed in 1778. -
Battle of Lexington
Revere and William got qord that the British were crossing the Charles Rivere to march toward Concord. The two rode on horses through the countryside warning the British are coming ! 70 minutemen met a large British troop in the Lexington village green. The colonial commander shouted "Dont fire unless fired upon!" Battle was over in minutes. Outnumbered colonists had suffered 8 dead and 10 wounded. -
Battle of Concord
British marched to Concord where they had there weapons but colonists found them so the British set fire to the buildings. As the British retreated back to Boston the minutemen fired from behind the trees, They had suffered 250 casualities compared to fewer than 100 for the colnists -
Battle of Bnker Hill
After the battle at Concord the British with drew to Boston where minutemen were surronding the city. British prepared to secure Charlestown warned of the plan colonial forces dug defensive trenches atop near Bunker Hill. When British awoke they were shocked to see the colonial soldiers had secured the hills. Most of the fighting took place on Breeds Hill. Colonists retreated when they ran out of ammunition. They suffered 1000 casulities. -
Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence
People can start altering and abolishing the goverment if goverment take away rights or if they start abusing the people. It means that they all have rights of independent states and can make treetys, go to war, and have military. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written to dissolve the political bands and to assome among the powers of the earth. It was also written to dissolve conflict. The self evident truths are that all men are created equal,that there is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,and the there are unalieble rights. The purposes of the goverment are to help there safety and happiness and to secure rights. The goverment gets its power from the people. -
Battle of Sarotoga
As Burgoyhe made his way through New York his badly outnumbered troops dashed with the patriots at the Battle of Sarotoga. Burgoyne suffered a major defeat to patriot troops Burgoyne finally surrendered to Gates. -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington and Rochambeau heard of Lord Cornwallis' encampment in Yorktown they raced south from New York to join with the French. Washington arrived just in time to bottle-up the British, who were anticipating reinforcements that never came from either General Henry Clinton or the British fleet.Off shore the French effectively blocked from Cornwallis while Washington made life unbearable for the British troops. Cornwallis finally surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
Definition: Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War on September 3, 1783. It was signed in Paris by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay. Under the terms of the treaty, Britain recognized the independent nation of the United States of America. Britain agreed to remove all of its troops from the new nation. -
Treaty of Paris
The United States agreed to allow British troops still in America to leave and also agreed to pay all existing debts owed to Great Britain. The United States also agreed not to persecute loyalists still in America and allow those that left America to return. -
Great Awkening
The colonists from Georgia to New England expierenced the great awakening. -
French and Indian War
The British and French had a war but the British won,. The french used gifts of trade goods to earn the trust and cooperation of Indian leaders. The British made a ban on gifts and that angered many amereican Indians and the British settlers moved onto the Indain land. In the 1760s India tribe banned together to go against the british. An indian attack on the important position at Fort Pitt failed after many times.