Events of the American Revolution
"Shot heard 'round the world"
What are the battles of Lexington and Concord?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A person appointed by a king or queen to act as governor of a colony.
Royal Governor
Served as an important transportation route in the early days of American settlements. The Iroquois Native Americans lived on the land before European explorers and fur trappers discovered it. Both France and Britain built settlements here.
Ohio River Valley
Declaration of Independence signed
What is July 4, 1776?
A document drawn up by the Pilgrims who sailed to Plymouth on the Mayflower. It was signed on November 21, 1620, before the Pilgrims landed and left their ship.
Mayflower Compact
Britain enacted this act in attempt to recover costs from the French and Indian War by placing taxes on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
Who is George Washington?
A form of government in which the people who live in a political unit have the right to make policies and laws for themselves. They are not ruled by an outside country or other authority.
Self-government
Year the Proclamation Line declared by King George
What is 1763?
The chief of the Ottawa tribe launched a rebellion against the British living in the Ohio River Valley. His goal was to expel all of the British living in this area. This was called what?
Pontiac's Rebellion
The economic policy that restricted the colonists from trading with anyone other than England.
What is mercantilism?
He is considered the first casualty of the American Revolution after being killed during the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A government in which the people have the power to make political decisions.
Democracy
The name used for groups of women who supported the boycotts and found or made substitutes for British goods.
Daughters of Liberty
What is the battle of Yorktown?
The British government sent over troops and forced colonists to house them.
What is the Quartering Act?
Was the king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820
King George III
In 1763, the British Parliament passed a proclamation stating that colonists could not settle west of these mountains.
Appalachian Mountains
Treaty of Paris signed
What is 1783?
This officially ended the Revolutionary War and gave the colonies their independence from Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
Tax imposed on all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
Were an independent group of American colonists led by Samuel Adams that formed in the summer of 1765 to protest British tax policies.
Sons of Liberty
Was a conflict that took place between Great Britain and France. It was part of a larger conflict known as the Seven Years’ War.
French and Indian War
Townshend Acts
1767