French and Indian War
War fought over ownership of North America.
Proclamation of 1763
Prevented Americans from expanding West past the Appalachian Mountains
Colonists were angry because it placed a limit on their freedom.
Navigation Acts
Restricted colonial trade, manufacturing, and shipping
Mercantilism
Belief that the colonies existed for the "Mother Country
Tea Act
Act that permitted only the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonist.
Stamp Act
A law that required the colonist to buy a stamp on every piece of paper they used. The colonist protested the act.
Quartering Act
Act that forced the colonist had to house British soldiers.
Townshend Act
Act that placed a tax on imported goods such as glass, paint, paper, and tea.
Boston Massacre
A fight broke out in Boston between the British and the colonist on the same day that the Townshend Act was repealed.
Sons of Liberty
Created by Samuel Adams to protest the British policies of taxation without representation.
Boston Tea Party
Outraged by tax on tea, the Sons of Liberty dress up like Indians and dumped 342 boxes of tea into the harbor. This was known as the.
Intolerable Act
Britain was stunned by the Boston Tea Party, so they created the Intolerable acts to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
Committee of Correspondence
Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of American Revolution. They made information available to all colonist.
Lexington and Concord
First battles of the American Revolution.
Patriots
Colonists that supported American Independence.
Loyalist
Americans who sided with the King and Parliament during the American Revolution.
Sam Adams
established the Sons of Liberty, a Patriot that opposed British rule.
Patrick Henry
lawyer from Virginia, one of the first Patriots to call for independence, said "Give me liberty or give me death
Thomas Jefferson
lawyer and brilliant thinker from Virginia, author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine
Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense, to explain the situation with Great Britain, also to convince colonist that they did not owe King George anything. Independence was the way to go.
Ben Franklin
writer, diplomat, and scientist from Philadelphia
Declaration of Independence
Document written by Thomas Jefferson that declared the colonist independent from British rule.
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British came to attack the Americans. Americans stopped their advance twice, but ran out of gunpowder and was defeated.
Battle of Trenton
Washington crosses the Delaware, Surprise attack after Christmas, Defeats the British
Battle of Saratoga
American victory turning point of the war, French were watching, Proved we could stand up to the British so French come to help Americans, Ben Franklin, Was in France for a year before the battle of Saratoga trying to convince France to ally with the Amer
Battle of Yorktown
American commander- George Clinton, British commander- General Cornwallis, Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown and British agree to American Independence.
Treaty of Paris
After the Battle of Yorktown, the British surrender to the Americans and the Americans win the war.