AP European History: Chapter 19

Educated middle class

• Bourgeoisie

• Great Fear

• Seven Years’ War

• Estates General

Conflict between Britain and France fought between 1756-1763 all over the world, particularly over colonies in the New World and India

• Treaty of Paris

• Seven Years’ War

• French Revolution

• American Revolution

A resolution to the Seven Years’ War; it gave a lot of territory over to the victorious British, notably the Ohio River Valley

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Great Fear

• Treaty of Westphalia

A law passed by Parliament taxing a long list of items, mainly paper-based things like contracts and newspapers

• Treaty of Paris

• Seven Years’ War

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Tea Act of 1773

A law passed by Parliament allowing the East India Company to have a virtual monopoly on the sale of tea to the American colonies

• Treaty of Paris

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Tea Act of 1773

American colonists tossed East India Co. tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act of 1773

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Treaty of Paris

The first skirmishes of the revolution, taking place in April 1775

• Lexington & Concord

• Yorktown

• Jacobins

• Continental Congress

Colonial delegates met at this gathering in Philadelphia to try to resolve conflicts with the British government peacefully

• First Continental Congress

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

Issued in July 1776, this compiled list of grievances against the English government also said that all men are created equal with rights to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Common Sense

• Thomas Paine

Hugely popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, which championed independence for the colonies

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• Constitution