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French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years War
Conflict between Great Britain and France to see which one would be the stronger power of North America. -
Albany Plan of Union
All the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution, except in the particulars wherein a change may be directed by the said act, as hereafter follows. -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, which prohibited American colonists from settling west -
Sugar Act
also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act. it also reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. -
Stamp Act
Which imposed tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Quartering Act
Designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America. -
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Stamp Act Congress
Meeting held in New York consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. The purpose was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Many people didn't like the Stamp Act so they protests and boycotted and it eventually worked and the british repealed the law. -
Declaratory Act
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. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. -
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Townshend Act
Formed to raise a revenue to help pay the cost of maintaining an army in North America then changed the tax plan to instead use the revenue to pay the salaries of some colonial governors and judges. -
Boston Massacre
Deadly riot that began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. -
Boston Tea Party
Was created to protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty -
Intolerable Acts
Was caused by the Boston Tea Party, also known as Coercive Acts were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. The first four Acts were passed as reprisal for the rebellion against the 1773 Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party Protest. -
Quebec Act
Was 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. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First battles leading up to the American Revolutionary War. The British soldiers went Lexington to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock and to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
Second Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
Agreement signed by the United States and British Representatives ending the American Revolution
