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French and Indian War
stated between France and England over territorial disputes. France, being allied with Native Americans had the advantage throughout most of the war. -
John Locke's Social Contract
The job of the government is to protect the rights of their people. If the government then chooses to violate those rights, it is the job of the people to overthrow that government. -
Writ of Assistance
was a general warrant that allowed British customs agents to search any ship they believe to be smuggling goods. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
Set at the end of the French and Indian war. France gave Britain all of Canada and North America -
Proclamation of 1763
British government, in an attempt to prevent any other conflicted, prohibited colonists from moving past the Appalachian mountains. -
Sugar Act & colonists response
did three things: lowered the tax on sugar, taxed other products that had not been taxed before, and colonists accused of violating these laws would be tried by a vice-admirality. -
Stamp Act & colonists response
tax posed on documents such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards. First tax that directly affected colonists' lives. -
Declaratory Act
was put into effect after parliament repealled stamp act. This act stated that colonists could not deny the taxes being put on them. -
Sons of Liberty is formed & Samuel Adams
group, led by Samuel Adams, boycotted against the tax on tea. Later committed the Boston Tea Party. -
Townshend Acts & the colonists response
Taxed goods, such as lead, glass, paint, and paper. Tax also imposed on tea. colonists were outraged because they love their tea (and biscuts) and their rights. -
Boston Massacre
A mob gathered near the British Customs house and harassed soldies. Soliers killed five colonists. -
Tea Act
devised in order to save the British East India Company. Allowed them to sell their tea, untaxed to the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
boston rebels, disquised as natives,boarded an East India Company ship and dumped eighteen thousand pounds of tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Called upon by an infuriated King George, parliament passed three laws. The first closed down Boston Harbor. The second, the Quartering Act, allowed British soldiers to house themselves within vacant housing. The third law, replaced the previous Massachusetts governor with General Thomas Gage, who placed Boston under martial law. -
First Continental Congress meets
fifty-six delegates met in Philadelphia to draw up the basic rights of the colonists. -
Loyalists and Patriots
Loyalists: colonists still loyal to the crown.
Patriots: colonists that desire independence. -
Midnight riders: Revere, Dawes, Prescott
These three people road throughout Boston, spreading word of seven hundred british soldiers approaching. -
Battle of Lexington
British soldiers fought seventy minutemen at Lextington, five miles out of Concord. The battle lasted only fifteen minutes and eight minutemen were killed. -
Battle of Concord
British soldiers arrived here after the Battle of Lexington, to find an empty weapons cache. On their march back to Boston, they met four thousand minutemen, and were slaughtered by the dozens. -
Minutemen
Assembled by the continental congress, and led by George Washington, the minutemen were the onlyopposing forcethat stood against Britain. -
Second Continental Congress
Many delegates gathered in Philadelphia to discuss their predicament with Great Britain. One of the only subjects that they could agree upon was the need of a Continental Army, so they appointed George Washington to lead their army. -
Continental Army
Created in order to combat Britain's armies, and led by General George Washington. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
British general, Thomas Gage, sent two-thousand four-hundred british soldiers up Bunker Hill to be shot down by the Continental army.Casualties for the british were over one-thousand, while the colonists lost four-hundred and fifty. -
Olive Branch Petition
Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George in the hope to resurrect peace between Britain and the colonies. King George flatly rejected the offer, and even labeled the war to come as a rebellion and called for a naval blockade of the colonies. -
Publication of Common Sense
Published by thomas Paine, the ideas sculpted by this book attacked Britain's government for the way they used to rule the colonies. -
Redcoats push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania
Redcoats push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. -
Washington's Christmas night surprise attack
Washington leads a gambit sneak attack to a Hessian ammo cache. They take the soldiers by surprise and the fort. -
Declaration of Independence
The author, Thomas Jefferson,drafted this document as a declaration to Great Britain, and other countries that the colonies are united as America. -
Saratoga
Burgyone was surrounded and surrendered here.
