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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a Plan to place the British American colonies under a more centalized government. On July 10, 1754, 7 British American colonies adopted this policy. Even though, the albany plan didnt work it was the first plan to unite the nations. -
French and Indian war
The seven years war called French and Indian was lasted 1756-1763. The conflict was played out in Europe, India, and North America. Great Britain won the 7 year war, -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation. The proclamation was mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Quartering Act
A tax imposted by the British Parliament, which was enforced indirectly. It was used to raised money so that colonist could help pay off the debt of the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
Many paper goods needed to have a tax stamp. It was imposed by the British on the colonies. The revenue went to pay for the troops station in the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting held October 1765 in NYC with delegates from 9 out of the 13 colonies. There the Declaration of Rights was written and told the hat only colonies could tax themselves, they had the right to trail by jury, all Rights of Englishmen, and the Parliament could not tax the colonist. -
Stamp Act repeal
arliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British Law, passed in mid March by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and their political victory but the the passing of the Declaratory Act was the beginning of more trouble. -
Townshend Act
Were a series of acts imposed by the British on their North American colonies. They were to get the revenue needs to pay for the colonial royal governors and judges. The Boston Massacre was a result of these taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
Was a reaction by the colonists of the British. The colonist disguised as Indians boarded a British ship and threw tea into the harbor on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also called the the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts, were a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. The fifth of the Intolerable Acts series was related to Quebec was seen as an additional threat to the liberty and expansion of the colonies. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was also passed in 1774, but was not apart of the Intolerable Acts. It gave Catholic French Canadians religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law; this law nullified many of the Western claims of the coast colonies by extending the boundaries of the province of Quebec to the Ohio River on the south and to the Mississippi River on the west. -
First Continental Congress
1774, the first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in order to redress colonial grievances over the Intolerable Acts.
The 13 colonies, excluding Georgia, sent 55 men to the convention. The 1st Continental Congress was not a legislative body, but a consultative body, and convention rather than a congress. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
he Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Boston Massacre
An event that killed five Boston colonist by British troops. It was sparked by a colonial rebellion in result of British taxes and the British opened fire. -
Treaty of Paris
he Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens.
