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Albany Plan of Union
Provied for an intercolonial government and a system for recruiting troops and collecting from the various colonies for their common defense. -
French and Indian War
Fourth and most decisive war (last war). -
George III takes throne
He and the Whigs pursued a colonial policy aimed at solving British's domestic financial probles. -
Quartering Act
Required the colonists to provide food and ling quartes for British soldiers stationed in the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Enacted by Parliament required that revanue stamps be placed on most printed paper in the colonies: legal documents, newspapers pamphlets and advertisements. -
Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from a colonies resoluted that only their own elected reps. had the legal authority to approve taxes. -
Townshend Acts
Parliament enacted new duties to be collected on colonial imports of tea, glass, and paper. -
Boston Massacre
A crowd of colonists harassed the guards near the custom house. The guards fiered into the crowd killing five people. -
Boston Tea Party
A grouup of Bostonians disquired themselves as Native American boared the British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
First Continental Congress
Determined how the colonies should react to what, from their viewpoint, seemed to pose an alarming threat to their rights and restore. -
Intolerable Acts
The british government enacted a series of punitive acts together with a seperate act dealing with the Quebec Act. -
Quebec Act
A law organizing the Canadian lands gaind from France. -
Second Continental Congress
Divided between one group of delegates. -
Declaration of Independence
By Jefferson, listed specific grievances against George III's government and also expressed the basic principles that justified revolution. -
Articles of Confederation
Congress modified Dickinson's plan to protect the power of the individual states.
