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The Albany Plane of Union
The seven British North American colonies that joined the gathering were Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. . It was a agreement that everyone would follow under one govermant. -
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French and Indian War
The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since 1689. It was a seven year war. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British made a proclamation,mainly intended to the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
Treaty of Paris.
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by King George III of Great Britain and of the United States of America on September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. This treaty, along with the separate peace treaties. -
Suger Act
The British won territory in North America after the seven year war, but with it came numerous problems of how to govern it. British officials were unable to balance the interests of colonists and Indians, and these conflicts led to colonial which causes of the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 to the tax enforced by the Parliament of Great Britain on the colonies of then British America. The act stated for printed materials to all be stamped -
Quartering Act
This act was the make sure the soldiers had everything they needed. If they wanted to stay at your house they could because if not you would get in trouble. Also this act was very difficult cause people had to take carte of them and they could take anything in there house out of it. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty is a group of mainly boys. All of them are against the fact that there is a Stamo Act, they feel very angry about it. The group began to get bigger th more it got around. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was the first unified meeting of the American colonies to respond to British colonial policies. It was all mainly to discuss the Stamp Act. -
Decloary Act
The British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, and this made it impossible for any Colonial assembly to pass any binding law. The Declaratory Act only made it clear that there were more acts where it came from and that future acts would be no better than the ones they had. -
Townshed Act
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the governors so they would remain loyal to Great Britain, -
Boston Mssacar
Everyone on went to the ship were the tea was and they threw it over that ship into the water, cause the disagreement with the suger act. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was what ultimately compelled a group of Sons of Liberty
on the night of December 16, 1773 to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians, board three ships moored in Boston Harbor, and destroy over 92,000 pounds of British East India Company tea. -
Committee of Correspondence
These Committees of Correspondence were intercolonial standing provincial governments. The first of these provincial governments was formed in November of 1772 in Boston. -
Boston Tea Act
the colonists were suspicious of British motives and the Tea Act led directly to the Boston Tea Party. -
Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea—nearly $1 million worth in today's money—into the water to protest the Tea Act. -
Quebec Act
it was passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Daughters of Liberty
They refused to drink birtish tea , and also they make everything they war out of yarn. They dont buy alto of things from british . they all rufuse becasue the king of britian just wants to be rich. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Boston was being besieged by thousands of American militia. The British were trying to keep control of the city and control its valuable sea ports. The British decided to take two hills, Bunker and Breeds, in order to gain a tactical advantage. The American forces heard about it and went to defend the hills. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee of five had
