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French and Indian War (7Years War)
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' 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. -
Albany Plan of Union
The exact day is unknown but the month and year are accurate.
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, at the Albany Congress in Albany, New York. More than twenty representatives of several northern and mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian War. -
The Battle of Fort Necessity
The engagement was one of the first battles of the French and Indian War and George Washington's only military surrender. The battle, along with the May 28 Battle of Jumonville Glen, contributed to a series of military escalations that resulted in the global Seven Years' War. -
The Battle of Fort Duquesne
The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition with 6,000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country and clear the way for an invasion of Canada -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representative of the United States of America, ended the American Revolutionary War -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains,[1]The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, passed in 1764, placed a tax on imports of sugar, wine, and coffee. The Sugar Act was the first attempt to raise money through taxation. The purpose of the Sugar Act was to stop the smuggling of imported molasses. In response to the Sugar Act, the colonists created smuggling courts. The smuggling courts were about all about "No trial by jury and burden of innocence on accused". -
The Stamp Act
All printed materials such as newspapers and playing cards were taxed by the Stamp Act. The focus of the Stamp Act was to tax the colonies without consent and interfere in colonial affairs. The colonists responded to the Stamp Act by creating the Sons of Liberty, the Stamp Act Congress, signed non-importation agreements, boycotting, intimidated officials by burning effigies, tarring government officials, sent a resolution to England, -
Quartering Act
The colonists were forced to house and feed British soldier. -
The Sons of Liberty
The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to the Tea Act, which led to the Intolerable Acts. -
The Stamp Act Congress
it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. The Stamp Act Congress created a petition saying colonies only be taxed by their own assemblies. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act gave Great Britain the right to make decisions for, and tax the colonists -
The Daughters of Liberty
The Daughters of lLiberty consisted of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts. The Daughters of Liberty was a group of 92 women who looked to rebel against British taxes by making home goods instead of buying them from the British.Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth and other goods. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts taxed glass, paper, tea, and lead. The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies. Some examples of protest in response to the Townshend Acts was the Daughters of Liberty, boycotting British goods, and making home-made fabric. -
The 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 killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
The Committee of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. -
The Tea Act
The objective of the Tea Act was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
The Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act set procedures for the Province of Quebec. The procedures were:
-Removal of references to Protestant faith in the oath of allegiance
-Restore Catholic Church
-Free to practice Catholicism
-It restored the use of the French civil law for matters of private law
-The province's territory was expanded to take over part of the Indian Reserve -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was 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. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at w
