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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Proclamation of 1763
The British government did not want American colonists crossing the Appalachian Mountains and creating tension with the French and Native Americans there. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty is strictly enforced. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.
