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The Albany Plan of Union
An early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" during the French and Indian War. Franklin's plan of union was one of several put forth by various delegates of the Albany Congress. -
The Currency Act
Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. -
The Stamp Act
Angered colonist by taxing every paper item. -
Boston Massarce
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. -
The Tea Act
Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists boarded ships on the Boston Harbor and tossed the tea overboard. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independance is written
Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence -
America is free
Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York while the Declaration of Independance is adobted which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.
