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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. -
Stamp Act
It exacyed revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbid colonial settlement beyond the line of the Appalachian Mountains. The act also created the provinces of Quebec, West Florida, and East Florida. The proclamation was largely ineffective in preventing western settlement, and served only to anger both settlers and the political elite who had invested in western land speculation. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax -
Quartering Act
Act that provided housing for the British -
Stamp Act Congress
First gathering of several congressman to devise a plan against taxation without representation -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
AN ACT for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
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
POlitical protest by the ''Sons of Liberty'' in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party. They were passed to punish the Massachussets Colonists. -
The Quebec Act
a law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
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. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting between the colonies except for one early int he American revolution. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States
