American Revolutionary War

1. American Revolutionary War By: Kelsey Allgor and Haylee Lunsford

2. 1754-1763 The French and Indian war • The French and Indian War, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since 1689. • The French and Indian War was a seven-year war between England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America.

3. The Navigation acts 1650-1700 • The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. • 1. Only British ships could transport imported and exported goods from the colonies. • 2. The only people who were allowed to trade with the colonies had to be British citizens. • 3. Commodities such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton wool which were produced in the colonies could be exported only to British ports. • Before 1763 the English civil war and the Glorious Revolution were taking place in Europe.

4. Proclamation of 1773 • On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a royal proclamation that caused a furor amongst the colonists. • This Proclamation of 1763 closed lands north and west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement. • The goal of the British was to put a stop to conflicts that had arisen between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian War.

5. The sugar act • April 5,1764 • The purpose was to raise money to pay back the debt that England had after fighting the French in the Seven Years War.

6. The stamp act March 22,1765 • The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains

7. Declaratory act • March 18,1766 • The first defining fact of the declaratory act of 1766 was that it followed hard on the heels of Parliament's repel of the detested stamp act of 1765, England's first major retreat in the face of colonial American resistance.

8. Quartering Act • This first Quartering Act was given Royal Assessment on March 24, 1765, and provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the mutiny act but if its soldiers outnumbered the housing available • A second Quartering was passed on June 2, 1774, as part of a group of laws that came to be known as the Intolerable Acts. The acts were designed to restore imperial control over the American colonies

9. Sons Of Liberty • In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty. • The sons of liberty were started in Boston, Massachusetts in protest of the Stamp Act of 1765.

10. Boston Tea Party • December 16th, 1773 • Three ships had come from England and wanted to dock in Boston Harbor. Because the ships wouldn't go back to England, Samuel Adams, Johan Hancock and eighty other men disguised themselves as Natives Americans and threw all the tea into Boston Harbor.

11. Intolerable Acts March 18,1774 • BostonPort Act: which closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party and until the king was sure that order had been restored. • The Massachusetts Government Act: which altered the Massachusetts government to bring it under control of the British government. • The Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the governor to move trials of accused royal officials to another colony or even to England if he thought that the official could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts. • the Quartering Act: which applied to all colonies, allowed British troops to be housed in American homes/buildings. • the Quebec Act: which enlarged the boundaries of the Province of Quebec and offended many groups in the colonies because it removed references to the Protestant faith in the oath of allegiance and gave freedom to practice the Roman Catholic faith.

12. Continental Congress • The first continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North America colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia. • The Second continental congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia ,Pennsylvania soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. • The reason why the first continental Congress was held because the colonists were very upset about the Intolerable Acts and the taxes. The Intolerable Acts were punishments that King Gorge the 3rd put on the colonies. • The reason why the second continental Congress The second continental congress was a convention of the delegates from the 13 colonies. They met on May 10, 1775. It was a reconvening of the first continental congress.

13. Lexington and Concord • Lexington- a town in Massachusetts, north west of Boston: first battle of the American revolution. • Concord-Agreement between persons, groups, nations.