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Mercantilism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading -
Albany Plan for the Union
Benjamin Franklin Created unified government -
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French and Indian War
Colonists helped pay for their own protection -
Proclamation of 1763
issued after the French and Indian War -
Quartering Act
requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food -
Declaratory Act
Repeal of Stamp act and lessening of the sugar act by Parliament in Great Britain -
Stamp Act
direct tax on the 13 Colonies -
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Townshend Acts
intensified colonial rage toward the British crown -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the harbor -
Tea Act
reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled -
1st Continental Congress
boycott of British goods -
Intolerable Acts
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary war -
Olive Branch Petition
final attempt to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies -
2nd Continental Congress
Continental army was created -
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Revolutionary War
13 Colonies declared independence as the United States of America -
Declaration of Independence-
Statement adopted by the second continental congress -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
advocating independence from Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
Agreement among the 13 Colonies -
Treaty of Paris
ended the Revolutionary war