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Albany Plan
Suggested by Benjamin Franklin, it was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized, unified government. It was the first important proposal to have the colonies as a whole united under one government. -
The Stamp Act
British parliament required American colonists to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. It led to an uproar in America that was a major cause of the Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston were being tormented by gangs and then started shooting a group of American colonists and killed five men. It united the colonists against Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest by colonists in Boston against the tea tax. Boston patriots dressed up as Indians and raided three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped over three hundred containers of tea into the harbor. It's important because of the British and American responses to what happened after the tea party. -
Intolerable Acts
Passed by British Parliament, used as punishment for the destruction made during the Boston Tea Party and caused an outrage for colonists. -
First Continental Congress
Representatives from each colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive acts. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
It was the first revolutionary battle, the British soldiers were sent out to capture colonial weapons and ran into an untrained militia. The militia defeats the British soldiers. -
Start of American Revolution
War fought between Britain and thirteen colonies after growing tensions because the colonists were tired of British rule. -
Second Continental Congress
Had many of the same delegates from the first continental congress and managed war effort and finances, the Patriots moved slowly towards independence with the help of congress. -
Declaration of Independence
Document written by Thomas Jefferson, showed that the colonists had a right to separate from the king and established the United States as its own nation. It states the goals of the nation, complaints against the king, and the arguments the colonists used to explain why they wanted to be free from Britain. -
End of American Revolution
The French assisted the thirteen colonies force the British surrender at Yorktown. War ended after British captured most of France's major cities.
