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Albany Plan
A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies. -
French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years' War, it was a conflict between the colonies, the French, and the British. -
Proclamation of 1763
Restricted colonists from going west of the mountains -
Sugar Act
Reduced the tax on sugar and enforced the collection of duties -
Stamp Act
Imposed a tax on all paper products -
Quartering Act
Allows British soldiers to use anybody's home -
Townshend Act
Taxed goods on goods imported to the colonies -
Boston Massacre
When redcoats shot into a crowd of protesters. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed as Indians and dumped British tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
A series of acts by the British government to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Representatives of each colony to govern them -
Lexington and Concord
Turning point battles in the war
