Events Leading up to the American Revolution

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  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies.

  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan
    a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea

  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress
    was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States

  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
    punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.