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Zenger Trial
John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The NewYork Weekly Journal, that accused the governor of an assortment of crimes and basically labeled him an idiot -
Albany Congress
representatives from seven colonies met with 150 Iroquois Chiefs in Albany, New York to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, and to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin. -
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Seven Years War
Conflict between the Britsh and french and indian that last 7years. it is also known as the French and Indian War -
Treaty of Paris
France lost all its possesion on the North American homeland. It ceded its claims east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, with the exception of Great Britain -
Pontiac Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion begins when a confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacks the British force at Detroit -
Sugar Act
placed a tax on sugar imported into the colonies and revitalized the customs service, introducing stricter registration procedures for ships and adding more officers -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act had to be paid in hard money and it came duriing a period of economic stagnation -
Repeal of Stamp Act
Reduced the taxes on the sugar Act also. This was based on the pressure of the Britsh merchants -
Declatory Act
Parliament affirmed its full authority to make laws binding the colonies, "in all cases whatsovever." -
Bostonn Massacre
THe boston massacre became infamous thoughout the colonies, in part because of the circulation of an inflammatory print produced by the Boston engraver Paul Revere, which depicted the British as firing on a croud of unresisting civilians -
Tea Act
prope;;ed the colonists onto a swift track from resistence to outright rebellion -
Lexington and Concord
General Gage snet troops from Boston to seize the stores of canon and ammunition the Massachusetts mlitia had stored at amrmoreis in Charelston and Cambridge. -
First Continental Congress
Included the most important leaders of the American cause -
Intolerable Acts
calculated to punish Massachusetss and strengthen the British hand. The Boston Port Bill prohibited the loading or unlodaing of ships in any part of Boston Harbor. The Massachusetts Government Act annulled the colonial charter delegates to the upper house whould no longer be elected by the assembly, but appointed by the king. -
The Second Continental Congress
Represented twelve of the British colonies on the nainland of North America -
Fort Ticonderoga
The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga was the first American victory of the Revolutionary War, and would give the Continental Army much-needed artillery to be used in future battles. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
in fact took place on nearby Breed’s Hill, gained the British a narrow victory. At the same time it encouraged the colonists to continue to fight. -
Olive Branch Petition
a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain -
Delaration of Independence
"These united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free an independent states, that they are absolved from all alegiance to the Britshi crown." ( A document that declared independence from Great Britain -
Valley Forge
No battle was fought at Valley Forge. Yet, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. It was here that the Continental army was desperately against the ropes and ready to quit. Even General Washington conceded, "If the army does not get help soon, in all likelihood it will disband."
