Taxation and Mercantilism - Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
By Lydia_B19
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Albany Plan for the Union
Benjamin Franklin founded the first idea that all the colonies should work together -
French and Indian War
British and Colonists fought French and Indians -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve -
Quartering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies -
Stamp Act
Act of Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the 13 colonies -
Townshend Act
Acts of Parliament relating to British American Colonies in North America -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed 5 people while under attack by a mob -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist dumped tea into the harbor -
Tea Act
Tax on tea -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of 13 colonies, they decided to boycott British goods -
Intolerable Acts
A term created to call the punitive laws created after the Boston Tea Party -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies. George Washington was commander in chief -
Olive Branch Petition
Great Britain wanted to have peace and no more conflict -
Declaratory Act
Brits passed a law that says they cant tax colonies without their consent. -
Thomas Paine writes "Common Sense"
He tried to convince the colonies to break away from British rule -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 colonies as the first constitution -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independence
An assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state