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Currency Act
The Currency Act is one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Warriors from numerous Native American tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George issued a law which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
The act required the colonists help the British soldiers with any needed accommodations, housing and food. -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to fight taxation by the British Government. -
Declaratory Act
A declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street where British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob. -
Tea Act
It was one of many taxes imposed on the colonists for buying tea. -
Boston Tea Party
An incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Quebec Act
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. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
The Intolerable Acts was the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
Henry presented a proposal to organize a volunteer company of cavalry or infantry in every Virginia county. By custom, Henry addressed himself to the Convention's president, Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg. Henry's words were not transcribed, but no one who heard them forgot their eloquence, or Henry's closing words: "Give me liberty, or give me death! -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
