Taxation and Mercantilism- national economic policy that is designed to maximise the trade of a nation, and historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver.

By annabethswan

  • Albany Plan for the Union

    The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. This occured in Albany, New York. The plan failed because the colonies were afraid of losing self government.

  • French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.

  • Stamp Act

    was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

  • Quartering Act

    required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.

  • Townshend Acts

    series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident in which British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Tea Act

    was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the 13 colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts was the term invented by 19th century historians to refer to a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown.

  • Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

    Paine published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.

  • Declaration of Independence

    By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress. The 13 colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.

  • Declaratory Act

    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.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    managed the Colonial war effort and moved towards independence. It eventually adopted the Lee Resolution which established the new country on July 2, 1776, and it agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

  • Articles of Confederation

    The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.

  • Treaty of Paris- Revolutionary War

    signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America, ended the revolutionary war.