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Albany plan
The Albany Plan was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. -
The stamp act
The Stamp Act passed by the British parliament on March 22, 1765. The tax was directed towards all American colonists and all american colonists was required to pay the tax. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists. -
Boston tea party
In December, 16, 1771, some colonists protest 13 years of British oppression, by attacking ships and samuel adams and sons of liberty threw 342 chests of tea overboard into the water in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts- this was harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were intended to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
1st continental congress
The 1st Continental Congress, was delegates from the 12 of 13 colonies, that met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts -
Battles of lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the 1st military interactions of the American Revolutionary War. The battles took place on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, within the towns of Lexington, -
Declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement made by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which said that the thirteen American colonies would be able to refer to themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. -
2nd continental congress
The Second Continental Congress started after the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783. In 1776, it took the huge step of declaring america independents.
