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French and Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
Proclamation line of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War. Pani act rebellion -
Sugar Act
colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Currency Act
regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
Quartering Act
British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act Congress
was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; -
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Townshend Acts
were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Non-importation Resolutions
In reaction to the Stamp Act (1765) and the Townshend Acts (1767), colonial nonimportation associations were organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants to boycott English goods. -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
Committees of Correspondence
ere shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
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First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
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2nd Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
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American Revolution
a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. -
Declaration of Independance
the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776.
