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Albany Plan of Unio
A response of French attacks on the frontier that Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for unitin the colonies. Colonies rejected the plan because it gave too much power to an assembly made up of representatives from all thirteen colonies. -
George III becomes king of Great Britain
He had different ideas about how the colonies should be governed. -
French and Indian War
Started a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvanie and Ohio. Great Britain won the war and gained complete control of the eastern third of the continent. -
Stamp Act
Imposed the first direct tax on the colonists. It required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, and even dice and playing cards. Parliament also passed laws regulating colonial trade in ways that benefited Great Britain but not the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
First meeting organized by the colonies to protest King George's actions. Delegates to the Congress sent a petitionto the king , arguing that only colonial legislatures could impose direct taxes such as the Stamp Tax. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of coloniest, dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. Protest became known as the Boston Tea Party. In retaliation Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which the colonists called the Intolerable Acts. -
Coercive
Colonists called the Intolerbable Acts. One of these acts closed Boston Harbor. Another of the Coercive Acts withdrew the right of the MA colony to govern itself. -
Committees of Correspondence
Correspondence were urging resistance of the Britaish. The committees considted of colonists who wanted to keep in touch with one another as events unfolded. -
First Continental Congress
Key coloniql leaders such as Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Ricard Henry Lee, and George Washington attented. The delegates debated what to do about the raltionship with Great Britatin. They finally imposed embargo, and agreement not to use British goods. -
Lexington and Concord
British Redcoats clashed with colonial minutemen at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. This skirmish was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
Within three weeks, delegates from all thirteen colonies gatherd in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. The Continental Congress immediately assumed the powers of a central government. -
Resolution of Independence
More than a year after fighting had begun in the colonies, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia did declare independence. Lee introduced a resolution in the continental Congress. -
Declaration of Independence
The committee submitted the edited draft to the Congress. The congress approved Lee's resolution. The colonies offically broke with Great Britain. The colonies officailly broke with Great Britain.
