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1773 BCE
Boston Tea Party
This was a political and mercantile protest about our taxes and tea. This party was led by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Albany Plan
This plan was used to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. This was led by Benjamin Franklin. -
American Revolution
It was a colonial revolt. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies had won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
Britain had wanted the American colonies to help pay for things. The british had passed on new laws that had made the colonist pay more taxes on tea, sugar, and other things. The colonists wanted independence from britain because they thought the was getting treated unfairly. -
Stamp Act
This act was created to regulate the stamp duty, and it was led by the British Parliment. -
Boston massacre
During this time British army had shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob
Before the Boston Massacre the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. 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 -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Were the 1st military engagements of the american revolutionary war
Massachusetts had formed a militia, the Minutemen. They had took military supplies at Concord for many months, and knew that the British will learn about this military cache. On that previous night Paul Revere and William Dawes had rode to warn the colonists about the British plans to take their weapons -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. It was adopted by the Continental Congress. Its purpose was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain.
the colonists wanted to be independent, but the colonists did not have the right to vote for people to represent them in the British government, so therefore they felt their rights were not being protected. -
1st congress
Regulated the time, and manner of administering certain Oaths. They were led to the Declaration of Independence by Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay in the year of 1789. -
2nd Congress
Managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally toward independence. This was led by Richard Henry Lee.
