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Currency Act
Restricted the issue of paper money and the establishment of new public banks by the colonies of New England. -
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French and Indian War
the colonies of British America against those of New France was fought in North America, end result was the Treaty of Paris -
Albany Plan of Union
Plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
Proclamation of 1763 (colonist reaction)
Decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Loose confederation of American Indian tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies -
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Sugar Act
Aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian -
Stamp Act
A direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
Secret revolutionary organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government -
Quartering Act
Troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
Declaratory Act
Stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Townshend Act
Where a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston -
Tea Act
granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England -
Boston Tea Party
A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Quebec Act
institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763 -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech-
Convention debating whether to send troops to fight into the revolutionary war -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Was a battle fought in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
