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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. The Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. (Month and date not accurate) -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American front in the Seven Years' War, a global conflict between the French and British empires and allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. The Proclamation was an attempt to establish a western border of the 13 colonies in America. That border was the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Government of Great Britain needed money to pay off the cost of the Seven Years Wars, known in the colonies as the French and Indian War. So Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which was a tax on sugar, wine, indigo (a color dye) and molasses. (month and date not accurate) -
Stamp Act
The Sugar Act did not make enough money, so the Parliament passed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act required colonists to buy and place stamps on many paper goods like newspapers, diplomas, contracts, and other legal documents. Basically everyone had to pay this tax. This act was unpopular in the colonies. -
Quatering Act of 1765
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. The Quatering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s War. Required colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act was a meeting that took place in New York City, with nine colonies, represented by 27 delegates, in attendance. The Stamp Act was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. It is also said another date of the Stamp Act Congress is October 19, 1765. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was repealed by parliament under Marquis of Rockingham. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed after the Stamp Act was repealed, which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. In addition to accompaning the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765, The Declaratory also changed and lessened the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. This act was originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
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. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War. -
Intolerable Acts
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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. (Month and date not accurate) -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act gave Catholic French Canadians religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law; this law nullified many of the Western claims of the coast colonies by extending the boundaries of the province of Quebec to the Ohion River on the south and to the Mississippi River on the west. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies (Georgia was not there) that met on September 5th to October 26th. They met in Philadelphia in order to redress colonial grievances over the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord initiated the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and the British. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to Concord to stop the colonists who were loading arms. The next day, on April 19, 1775, the first shots were fired in Lexington, starting the war. The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
