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Start/End of French & Indian War
The final Colonial war was the French & Indian War. -
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The Albany's Congress
The purpose of the Albany's Congress was to try and secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois while fighting the French. They were also trying to form a colonial alliance based on a design made by Benjiman Franklin. -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion was a war by the Indians of the Great Lakes region which was against British. The Indian's felt that the British were getting prepared for a war against them. -
Proclamation of 1763
The end of the French and Indian war caused a great celebration for the colonies. The Proclamation established four new colonies. -
Sugar Act
Colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of six pennies per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. This hurt the British West Indies. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of taxing on molasses from six pennies to three pennies per gallon. -
The Currency Act
The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency. There were no gold or silver mines. Currency could only be obtained through a trade regulated by Great Britain. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to declare Governmental Authroity over the colonies. Great Britain had serious debt following the Seven Years War. -
The Declatory Act
The Declatory act is an act for better securing of the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America on the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Taxes put on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea were applied with the design of raising $40,000 a year earned for the colonie's administration. An act for granting certain tasks in the British colonies and the plantations of America. -
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
The Boston Non-Importation Agreement was organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants. -
The Boston Massacre
The Bsoton Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British Soldiers. Several colonists were killed which led to a campaign by speech-writers. -
The Tea Act
This act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. -
The Gaspee Afair
The Sons of Liberty were active throughout the colonies, the British officers were charged with enforcing the custom laws. The Stamp Act was becoming to aggressive. -
The Tea Act
The British were all in a spot because of tea. It's an act for granting a drawback of part of the customs of the exportation to Ireland of tea, and the British Dominions of America. -
Boston Port Act, One of the "Intolerable Acts"
An act to discontinue, the landing and charging, lading or shopping, of goods, wares, and merchandise in Boston. It closed the Port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea dumped into the the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. -
Patrick Henry's first speech
"Give me liberty or give me death" -
Paul Revere's Ride
His famous midnight ride that was warning the advancing British troops which was one of his only revolutionary acts. He was also an illustrator. -
Lexington & Concord
The British's General Gage had a secret plan. During the wee hours on April 19, 1775, he would send out groups of British soliders. One of their destinations was Lexington, where they were planning to capture Colonial leaders, Sam Adams & John Hancock. There next destination was Concord, where they would try and seize gunpowder. Spies & friends leaked Gage's secret plan.