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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.he French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Albany plan of Union
the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation on October 7, 1763, that created a boundary between Indian lands and white settlement.
Running from north to south along the Appalachian Mountain range, the proclamation decreed that whites would henceforth be forbidden to settle in land west of the boundary, -
Sugar Act
also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar.
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Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. The stamp act affected colonies. -
Quartering act of 1765
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French/Indian war. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765. The meeting was held in New York City, it was the first gathering of elected representatives. -
Repeal Of The Stamp Act
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766.The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
Boston Massacre
he Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Quebec Act
it was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was formally known as British North America. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Battke of Lexingtonn
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Declaratory Act
commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767. . The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme. -
Treaty of Paris
After the signing of the Treaty of Paris, John Adams informed Congress in a letter dated September 5, 1783.
The Treaty of Paris, formally ending the war, was not signed until September 3, 1783
