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French & Indian War
fourh and most decesive war happens in the colonies: known as the Seven Years War in Europe -
Albany Plan of Union
provided an intercolonial government & system for recruiting troops & collecting taxes from colonies for defense -
George III takes throne
tried to destroy the power of the Whig aristocrats -
Quartering Act
required colonists to provide food & living for stationed British soldiers -
Stamp Act
an effort to raise funds to support british military forces in the colonies -
Stamp Act Congress
resolved that only their own elected represenatives had the legal authority to approve taxes -
Townshend Acts
Four acts of the British Parliament in 1767 that imposed duties on the import of paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea to the North American colonies -
Boston Massacre
a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people -
Boston Tea Party
a direct action protest by colonists in Boston, colony of against the British government -
Quebec Act
An act passed in 1774 by the British Parliament to establish French civil law and allow the practice of the Roman Catholic religion in the province of Quebec. -
Intolerable Acts
Measures passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as a reprisal for American colonial resistance to the Tea Act of 1773 -
First Continental Congress
federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States in the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation -
Second Continental Congress
divided into two groups where one group thought colonies should declare independence and one hoped conflict could be resolved by negotiating -
Articles of Confederation
a plan/document to protect the power of the individual states -
Declaration of Independence
a declaraton that declared for colonies to be independent
