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Albany Plan
This was a plan to centralize the government of the North American colonies. This plan was never carried out, but its importance is it was the first time the colonies ever attempted to centralize. this helped citizens of the colonies to begin thinking of an American union. -
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French & Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
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Sugar, Stamp, Quartering, Townshend Acts
the sugar act ended the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. the British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. the quartering act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. the Townshend acts duties was to raise a revenue to help pay the cost of maintaining an army in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea. They were afraid that Britain would take over America, and they wanted to rule their own country. -
Intolerable Acts
these were acts meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.