King George III
Seven Years' War
Treaty of Paris, 1763
Proclamation of 1763
writs of assistance
Sugar Act, 1764
Stamp Act, 1765
Declaratory Act, 1766
Quartering Act, 1765
Revenue Act of 1767
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
Colonists Respond:
circular letters
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party, 1773
First Continental Congress
Paul Revere
Whigs
Tories
minutemen
"Shot heard 'round the world"
Lexington & Concord, April 1775
Bunker Hill, June 1775
Colonists Respond:
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Patrick Henry
Richard Henry Lee
Declaration of Independence, 1776
Land Acquisition:
Cajuns
consumer revolution
Treaty of San Ildefonso, 1762