American Revolution

By oasdel1392@bcsstudent.us

  • Stamp Act 1765

    a direct tax passed by British Parliament on March 22, 1765, requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper goods—including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards—to fund British troop protection

  • Quartering Act

    British parliamentary laws requiring American colonists to house and supply British troops

  • Townshend Acts

    taxing essential imports (glass, lead, paint, paper, tea), suspending the New York Assembly, creating a new Customs Board, and increasing smuggling punishments

  • Boston Massacre,

    The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then the colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.

  • Boston Tea Party

    December 16, 1773, American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians, organized by the Sons of Liberty, destroyed 342 chests of tea aboard British ships in Boston Harbor

  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    four to five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in direct response to the Boston Tea Party to suppress rebellion in Massachusetts

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)

    The Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, marked the start of the American Revolutionary War, famously termed "the shot heard 'round the world

  • Second Continental Congress

    the de facto governing body of the Thirteen Colonies during the American

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8

  • "Common Sense"

    the sound, practical judgment and innate ability to perceive and evaluate situations based on widely shared,, everyday knowledge rather than specialized expertise
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    he Declaration of Independence is famous for words like "We hold these truths to be self-evident
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    served as the first U.S. constitution, establishing a weak central government and a "league of friendship" among the 13 sovereign states to manage the Revolutionary War
  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787
  • Annapolis Convention

    Annapolis Convention

    a meeting of 12 delegates from five states (NY, NJ, PA, DE, VA) in Annapolis, Maryland, aimed at regulating interstate trade under the weak
  • Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)

    Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)

    brought together 55 delegates from 12 states to revise the failing Articles of Confederation