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Albany Plan of Union
Plan to reunite the colonies but it got rejected because i9t gave to much power to an assembly made up of representatives from all thirteen colonies. -
French and Indian War
Started as a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. -
George III becomes king of Great Britain
Determined to deal firmly with the American colonies. -
Stamp Act
Imposed the first direct tax on colonists -
Stamp Act Congress
First meeting organized by the colonies to protest King Georges actions. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Coercive Acts
Called the Intolerable Acts -
Commitees of Correspondence
Urging resistace to the British -
First Continentalo Congress
Debated what do in arelqtionship it Great Britain -
Lexington and CConcord
First blow in the revolutionary war -
Second COntinental Congress
Servd as acting Gov -
Declaration of Independence
Congress approved the resolution and turned it into the Declaration of Independence -
Resolution of Independence
Later became the declaration of indepeedence
