Lecture 3. From the 1st colonies to Independence.

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Lecture 3. From the 1st colonies to Independence.

· the War of Independence / The American Revolution /The Revolutionary War

· the lack of controlling influence by the English government

· i.e……………

· New England

· the "Mayflower Compact” -

· the Massachusetts Bay Company

· Connecticut and Rhode Island

· Other reasons for the lack of control:

· the early 18th c, the Glorious Revolution

· By the early 18th century, the colonial legislatures held two significant powers

· The French and Indian War / the Seven Years War ( …. - ……)

· the Albany Plan of Union

· The Seven Years’ War started as ___________________________ and ended up with __________________.

· The Peace of Paris (1763): Britain received………………………..

=> a new problem ……………………………..

· Colonies fast increasing in population, and needing more land for settlement

· George III issued (in 1763) a proclamation that

……………………………………

· The Colonists ………………………………………………………...

· the new financial policy

Date	Name of the Act	Meaning
	The Sugar Act
	the Currency Act
	the Quartering Act
	The Stamp Act
	the Declaratory Act
	The Townshend Acts
	The Tea Act
	The Intolerable Acts:
	the Boston Port Act
	the Massachusetts Government Act
	the Quartering Act
	the Administration of Justice Act

· the "Sons of Liberty" –

· May 1765, the House of Burgesses ['bɜːʤɪsiz] –

· June 8, the Massachusetts Assembly

· Stamp Act Congress in New York,held inOctober 1765

· 1766

· John Dickinson

· March 5, 1770 the “Boston Massacre”

· The British Parliament in 1770 opted for

· the Tea Act

· East India Company

· December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams, the Boston Tea Party

· September 5, 1774, Philadelphia "

· the First Continental

· "Continental Association"

· Opposition to indepenndece:

· April 19, 1775, Concord, Massachusetts

· May 1775 The Second Continental Congress

· the Olive Branch Petition,

· June 1776

· 4th of July 1776, The Declaration of Independence

· Loyalists

· 1777 «The Articles of Confederation»

· The beginning of the American Revolution

· The French

· The Marquis de Lafayette

· The Spanish and Prussian

· The turning point in the war

· Saratoga, New York state

· October 1781, general Cornwallis, at Yorktown

· Peace talks, Paris in 1782.

· September, 3, 1783. The Treaty of Paris

· After the War. The Results of the Revolution

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