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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 and Indian war
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. -
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Sugar, Stamp, Quartering, Townshend acts
Acts that made the colonists mad. they put them in to punish them. -
Boston Massacre
a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
intolerable acts
DescriptionThe Intolerable Acts were 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. -
1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.