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Albany Plan of Union
Provied an intercolonial government and a system for recruting troops and collecting taxes from various colonies for their common defense. -
French and Indian War
Provoked by the French when building a chain of efforts along the Ohio River Valley -
King George The Third Takes Throne
Pursued a Colonial policy aimed at solving Britains domestic financial problems. -
Quatering Act
Required colonies to provide food and living quarters for British solders stationed in the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Required revenue stamps be placed on most printed papers in the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from nine colonies met in New York that resolved that only their own elected representatives had legal authority to approve taxes. -
Townshend Acts
Parliament enacted new duties to be collected on colonial imports of tea, glass and paper. -
Boston Massacre
Guards fired into crowd and killed five people including and African American, Crispus Attucks and were acquitted. -
Boston Tea Party
Bostonians disguised themselves as Native Americans and went onto ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into harbor. -
Quebec Act
A law organizing the Canadian lands gained from France. -
First Continental Congress
Wanted to protest parliamentry intrusions on their rights and restore the relationship with the crown that had existed before the French and Indian war. -
Intolerable Acts
British Government enacte da series of punitive acts (Coercive Acts), together witha separate act dealing with French Canada ( Quebec Acts) -
Second Continental Congress
Delegates thought colonies should declare independence and others hoped to resolve by negotiating new relationship with Great Britain. -
Articles of the Confederation
Plan to protect the powers of the individual states. -
Declaration Of Independence
States that all men are created equal; life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness are the unalienable rights.
