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Albany Congress
Meeting of representatives sent by legislatures of seven of the thirteen British colonies. -
The Sugar Act
Merchants required to pay taxes on sugar and molasses. Typically six pence per gallon of molasses. -
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The quartering act
A minimum of 2 acts of British parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. -
The Stamp Act
The British Parliament required colonists to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper that they used. -
The Declaratory act
repealed the Stamp Act and lessened the Sugar Act -
The Townsend Act
A series of measures that were introduced into the British parliament b Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townsend in 1767 and imposed taxes on things like, glass, lead, paper, and paint -
The Boston Massacre
Street fight between patriots who threw snowballs, sticks, and stones. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists protest 13 years of British oppression by throwing tea into the Boston harbor -
The Tea Act
was made to bail out the floundering East India company, a key actor in the British economy -
The 1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met from September 5 to October 26 of 1774, to organize colonial resistance -
2nd Continental congress
Convention of delegates of the 13 colonies that started the meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philidelphia -
The Boston port act
designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party -
The Quebec Act
made to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law -
The Edenton tea party
A political protest in Edenton, NC, in response to the tea act -
The Ride of Paul Revere
Silversmith Paul Revere left his home at midnight on his horse to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that "the British are coming, the British are coming" -
The shot heard around the world
The shot heard around the world was the first gunshot of the revolutionary world, which was , in fact, heard around the world? -
Common sense
it challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
A document that says that the United States of America is Independent and all men are treated "equally" -
Articles of confederation act
an agreement of the original 13 states
