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The Albany Congress
Expecting war to break out soon, the British government called a meeting of colonial leaders. It took place in Albany, New York. They also invited Iroquois tribes to the meeting because they hoped to from an alliance with the Iroquois. But the Iroquois refused. -
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French and Indian war
The French and Indians vs. British, Iroquois, and colonists. The reason for the control over the Ohio River valley. The war was fought in North America. British won the war and France lost their entire Empire in North America. -
Treaty of Paris
France surrendered son in February 1763, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Paris. And with that France lost almost all of its North American possession. -
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Pontiac's War
Pontiac (The leader of the Ottawa nation) formed an alliance of western Native Americans. Nearly half a dozen western British fort were destroyed And at least 2,000 back country settlers were killed. The British defeated Pontiac's forces but Pontiac continued to fight for another year. -
Procrastination of 1763
To avoid further wars with Native Americans, the British government issued the Proclamation of 1763. It banned colonial settlement west a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclamation of 1763 angered many colonists. The Proclamation was widely ignored and proved impossible for the British to enforce. -
Sugar Act
The British effort to impose new taxes on the colonies began in 1764 when Parliament passed the sugar act, witch put a duty on several products, including molasses. It also called for harsh punishment of smugglers. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
The Quartering Act
British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds. -
The Tea Act
The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. It was intended to help the British East India Company, one of Britain's most important companies. The Tea Act actually lowered the price of tea. However some colonists reacted Angrily to the part of the act that gave the East India Company a monopoly on selling British tea in the colonies. Many colonial leaders also argued that even though the price of tea was lowered, colonists still had to pay the tax on tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dump British tea in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were 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 of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September to October, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Selected members of the militia were called MINUTEMEN because they could be ready to fight in a minute's time. , when the advance guard of nearly 240 British soldiers arrived in Lexington, they found about 70 minutemen formed awaiting them. Both sides eyed each other warily, Suddenly, a bullet buzzed through the morning air. It was "the shot heard round the world." As the British retreated toward Boston, new waves of Colonial militia intercepted them. Shooting from behind fences and trees. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Congress, at first, was divided about what to do. A group of delegates from New England wanted to declare independence. However, nearly all delegates felt like they needed to prepare for war. The Congress chose George Washington as the commander of the newly formed Continental army. -
Battle for Fort Ticonderoga
A small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were later transported to Boston. -
Battles of Bunker and Breed's Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on nearby Breed’s Hill. -
Olive Branch Petition
Congress pasted a statement called the Declaration of the Congress Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms. It was a protest against the harsh regime inflicted upon the North American states by the British colonialists, in particular the imposition of new, harsher taxes. The King didn't even read the Olive Branch Petition. -
Invasion of Quebec
Patriot forces under Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery attempted to capture the British-occupied city of Quebec and with it win support for the American cause in Canada. The attack failed, and the effort cost Montgomery his life. The Battle of Quebec was the first major defeat of the Revolutionary War for the Americans. -
The British withdrawal from Boston
more than a dozen cannons from Fort Ticonderoga had been brought within the Dorchester Heights fortifications. British General Sir William Howe hoped to use the British ships in Boston Harbor to destroy the American position, but a storm set in, giving the Americans ample time to complete the fortifications and set up their artillery. Realizing their position was now indefensible, 11,000 British troops and some 1,000 Loyalists departed Boston by ship on March 17