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Albany plan
Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin -
Proclamation of 1763
which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. -
Boston Massacre
It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter -
Intolerable acts
He 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
hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.