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French & Indian War
The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. -
Proclamation line of 1763
When news of the rebellion reached London, the government decided to put into action a plan for creating a western Indian reserve, and produced the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbid colonial settlement beyond the line of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
Originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. -
Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense"
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces, and a British colonial army officer, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces raised and to be raised by them" on June 19 -
Second Continental Congress
the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House -
Quartering act of 1774
One of the series of Intolerable Acts passed as a reprisal to the Boston Tea Party. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech
Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia.
