Seven Years War

Quebec Act

Law that set up a government for Canada and protected the rights of French Catholics

Iroquois League

—Also known as the Iroquois Confederacy —Iroquois leaders went around from tribe to tribe to get them to band together against the Europeans

Causes of french Indian War

—Conflict between Britain and France —Dispute over Ohio River Valley

Seven Years War also known as

—French and Indian War —Final Colonial War

Ben Franlklin "Join or Die"

—political cartoon —cut up snake labeled as the colonies showing they need to unite

Sons of Liberty

A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

Intolerable Acts

A series of laws set up by the British to punish Massachusetts for its protests.

Loyalists & Tories

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

Pontiac Rebellion 1763

An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by chief Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed. A large number of Indian tribes banded together under chief Pontiac to keep the colonists from taking over their land. Pontiac's Rebellion led to Britain's Proclamation of 1763

Minuteman

Colonial militia volunteer who was prepared to fight at a minute's notice

Committees of Correspondence

Committees of Correspondence, organized by patriot leader Samuel Adams, was a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies. They provided the organization necessary to unite the colonies in opposition to Parliament. The committees sent delegates to the First Continental Congress.

Was the American Revolution inevitable?

If the British had not taxed the colonists without giving them any representation in Parliament, and without passing the Intolerable Act, The Stamp Act, The Tea Act, etc. the war might have been avoidable.

Artwork "bloody massacre" by Paul Revere

Image of soldiers shooting colonists

Tea Act

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

First Continental Congress

September 1774, delegates from twelve colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts

The Albany Plan of Union

The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin

War tactics in the french and indian war

The French and Indian War began in 1754 as a conflict between British and French colonists in North America. French forces and their allies relied on guerrilla tactics to fight the colonists

Results of the Treaty of Paris

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies.

Boston Massacre

The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans including Crispis Attucks

Battle of Lexington and Concord

The first military engagement of the Revolutionary War. It occurred on April 19, 1775, when British soldiers fired into a much smaller body of minutemen on Lexington green. For the British, 73 were killed, 174 were wounded, and 26 were missing. It was considered a major military victory for the colonists and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America.

Ohio River Valley

—west of the Appalachian mountains around the Ohio River —Land the British took from the French after the war

Boston Tea Party

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

Militia

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

Boycott

A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

Proclamation of 1763

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.

Washington's role in the F&I War

—It was his first military experience —Commander of the Virginia Regiment —Gained experience that made him a good choice later to lead the continental army

Patrick Henry and the quotation "Give me liberty or give me death"

"Give me liberty or give me death"

Quartering Act

1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Stamp Act

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

Paxton Boys

They were a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina.

Townsend Acts 1767

brought harsh taxes on goods like glass, paper, tea; writs of assistance were issued that allowed a search of colonial homes without a warrant; boycotts of British goods began, & it was repealed in 1770