Mercantilism

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

By Madi Lynae

  • Albany Plan for the Union

    Benjamin Franklin - Was the first idea of all the colonies working together.

  • French and Indian War

    the French and Indian war caused the British £70,000,000 and doubled there national debt, taxes begin, end of salutary neglect

  • Proclamation of 1763

    forbade all settlement 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 the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the 13 colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp

  • Townshend Acts

    Acts of parliament relating to British American Colonies in North America during 1767 and 1768

  • Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers shot and killed 5 people while under attack by a mob.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Political and mercantile protest by the sons of liberty

  • Tea Act

    bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy

  • Intolerable Acts

    A term created to call the punitive laws created after the Boston Tea Party

  • 1st Continental Congress

    meeting of 13 colonies, they decided to boycott British goods

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    They wanted to have peace and no more conflict, Great Britain

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies. Created the the Continental Army and named George Washington as commander in chief

  • Revolutionary war Begins

    American War of Independence, was an 18th century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America

  • Declaratory Act

    repeal of the stamp act

  • Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

    that is was time to break away from british rule.

  • Articles of Confederation

    an agreement among the 13 colonies as the first constitution

  • Treaty of Paris- Revolutionary War

    it was signed and it ended the revolutionary war

  • Declaration of Independence

    an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state.