Taxation and Mercantilism- belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

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    French and Indian War

    The British thought the colonists should help pay for the cost of their own protection. The French and Indian War had cost the British treasury 70,000,000 and doubled their national debt to 140,000,000.

  • Albany Plan for the Union

    plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
    Articles of Confederation-Agreement among the 13 original states of the United States that served as its first constitution.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.

  • Stamp Act

    an act of the Parliament that imposed a direct tax on the British colonies and plantations in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper.

  • Declaratory Act

    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.

  • Townshend Acts

    a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies.They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    A confrontation in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob

  • Tea Act

    an act of Great Britain's Parliament to impose a tax on tea and reduce the massive tea surplus of the British East India Company in London. Part of the Townshend Acts.

  • Boston Tea Party

    A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts

  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

  • Quartering Act

    A name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorities.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    They managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. They decided to create a Continental army.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    It asked for the rights of colonist while maintaining their loyalty to Britain.

  • Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

    He tried to get colonies to fight for their independence from Great Britain.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.

  • Articles of Confederation

    Agreement among the 13 original states of the United States that served as its first constitution.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. It ended the American Revolutionary War.