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Albany Plan of Union (44)
In response to the French attacks on the frontier, in 1754 Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the Colonies. -
George III becomes King of Great Britain (43)
King of Ireland and Great Britain until the union of the two countries. He had different ideas on how things should be governed. -
French Indian War (43)
It started as a struggle between the French and The British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. -
Stamp Act (43)
The act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. It required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, and even dice and playing cards. -
Stamp Act Congress (44)
Nine colonies sent delegates to a meeting in New York called the stamp act Congress. It was the first meeting organized by the colonies to protest King Georges actions. They sent a petition to the king arguing that only colonial legislatures could impose direct taxes such as the stamp act. -
Committees of Correspondence (44)
Aimed to maintain Communication with others. The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. The exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and helped bring about the formation of the First Continental Congress in 1774. -
Boston Tea Party (44)
A group of colonies, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor. The protest became known as the Boston Tea party. In retaliation the parliament passed The Coercive Acts which the colonists called it the Intolerable Acts. -
Coercive Acts (44)
Also known as the Intolerable Acts they were the a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for throwing lots of tea in the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental congress (44)
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. It had no constitutional authority, it only served as an acting government of the colonies throughout the war. -
Lexington and Concord (44)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first military involvement. Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington and Concord.The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
Second Continental congress (45)
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies They started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Resolution of Independence (46)
Resolution of Independence, was a three–part resolve by the Second Continental Congress on June 7, 1776, to declare the United Colonies rightfully independent of the British Empire, to establish a plan for ensuing American foreign relations -
Declaration of Independence (46)
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. It introduces the 13 colonies.
