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The French and Indian War
This is also known as the Seven Years War, it lasted from 1754 to 1763. It was fought over the land in America between the English and French. -
Treaty of Paris, 1763
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France. France gave up all their territories to North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
This Proclamation established a variety of limiting legislature in regards to interaction with the American Indians, boundaries for territories, and governmental responsibility. It foreboded colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. And It was created to protect colonists from the Indians. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. It was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies. The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. It was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains -
Quartering Act of 1765
On March 24, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act. Which was a series of measures primarily aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British Law, passed in March by the Parliament of Great Britain. The Declaratory Act was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts of 1767 was a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea and used revenues to maintain British troops in America. The Townshend Acts was one of a series of taxes that divided Great Britain and its colonies in America. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was also a street fight where snowballs, stones, and sticks were being thrown. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed by the Parliament on May 10th, 1773. It granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The colonists dressed up like Mohawk Indians to dump about 90,000 pounds of tea into the harbor. -
Boston Tea Party
Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians were armed. They quietly boarded three ships carrying cargoes of British East India Company tea. In a span of three hours, 340 chests of British East India Company Tea were smashed and dumped into Boston Harbor. Over 92,000 pounds of tea were destroyed and thrown into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts was a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. It was laws passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Teas Party. -
1st Continental Congress
On September 5th the first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. A group of important men met to discuss the crisis in the colonies. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was a small fight but it was where the Revolutionary War started. Neither the British nor the Americans intended to start a fight but a gunshot was the first shot of the American Revolution and that's where the war started. It was called the "shot heard around the world" -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress met as agreed on May 5, 1775. There they appointed George Washington as commander of the colonial army. -
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
Although it is known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on Breed’s Hill. This battle was when the British defeated the Americans in Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition, drafted on July 5, 1775, was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress. The Olive Branch Petition has been called different names over the years, the most popular of which include The Second Petition to the King and The Humble Petition. -
Common Sense
It's a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. On June 11, 1776 the Continental Congress appointed five leaders, called the Committee of Five, to write a document explaining why they were declaring their independence. The five members were Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Thomas Jefferson.The Declaration of Independence did more than just say the colonies wanted their freedom. It explained why they wanted their freedom. -
Battle of Saratoga
It was fought in two stages on September 19 and October 7, 1777, proved to be a turning point in the American struggle for independence. It also had a direct impact on the career of General George Washington. The battle of Saratoga took place on the fields of upstate New York, nine miles south of the town of Saratoga. -
Battle of Yorktown
On 1781, a combined American force of Colonial and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. It was led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau. Yorktown proved to be the final battle of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations shortly after the American victory. -
Treaty of Paris, 1783
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783. The 1783 Treaty was one of a series of treaties signed at Paris in 1783 that also established peace between Great Britain and the allied nations of France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
