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French and indian war
The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. -
Alabany plan of Uion
A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. It was proposed by Benjamin Franklin and called for the formation of a permanent federation of the American colonies. -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation. -
Sugar act
On April 5, 1764, 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. -
quartering act of 1765
Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Stamp Act congress
The Stamp Act Congress, or First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
After four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
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
the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power. -
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
. An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists; it took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. The government in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies. -
intolerable Acts
A series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. -
Quebec Act
a well-intentioned measure designed to afford greater rights to the French inhabitants of Canada, which had come under British rule through the Treaty of Paris in 1763. a new governor and council were to be appointed to govern affairs in Quebec. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonie. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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. -
Treaty of paris
a treaty signed in 1783 by the United States and Great Britain that ended the American Revolution. a treaty signed in 1898 by the United States and Spain that ended the Spanish-American War.
