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

By cameronweswhite

  • Albany Plan for the Union

    Benjamin Franklin’s plan to unite the colonies. It was rejected by Britain and the colonies.
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    French and Indian War

    Fought between French colonies and british colonies. Britain’s debt was greatly increased and took more control over colonies

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Calm tension between Natives and colonists

  • Quartering Act

    Americans had to give british soldiers food and shelter

  • Stamp Act

    required stamps on documents and newspapers that had to be paid for

  • Declaratory Act

    Said that the control of Britain was the same in the colonies as it was in Britain
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    Townshend Acts

    series of acts that heavily taxed american colonies

  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed 5 people while being attacked by a mob. Newspapers blew it out of proportion.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protest by Sons of Liberty against british tea act.

  • Tea Act

    heavily taxed tea

  • 1st Continental Congress

    Decided rights and liberties of colonies

  • Intolerable Acts

    Laws passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The first battles of the American Revolutionary War

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Passed to avoid a full scale war between colonies and britain

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    Discussed how to retaliate against redcoats. Continental army formed.
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    Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

    fight for an egalitarian government

  • Declaration of Independance

    Written to the King to announce the colonies independence from Britain.

  • Articles of Confederation

    Agreement between the original 13 states that acted as the first constitution.

  • Treaty of Paris - Revolutionary War

    Ended Revolutionary War