Taxation and Mercantilism (Mercantilism is the belief in the benefit of profitable trading)

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  • Albany Plan of Union

    A plan to unify a government between the 13 colonies, it was suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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    French and Indian war

    France and Indians fought against the British and colonists

  • Proclamation of 1763

    No one could go west of the appalachian mountains.

  • Stamp Act

    Tax on every piece of paper.
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    Quartering Act

    Forced colonist to give homes to the British soldiers

  • Townshend Act

    Taxes of paper, and other household items.

  • Boston Massacre

    British army soldiers killed 5 americans.

  • Tea Act

    Taxes on tea

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protest by colonists against the tea tax, so they dumped the tea into the harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Punishment for the destruction during the Boston Tea Party

  • 1st Continental Congress

    Fixed the taxes

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Attempt to avoid a huge war between England and the 13 colonies.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The first military engagements in the American Revolutionary War

  • Thomas Paige's 'Common Sense'

    Book that advocates independence

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    They adopted the Declaration of Independence

  • Declaratory Act

    The repeal of the Stamp Act

  • Articles of Confederation

    An agreement between the first 13 colonies that resulted in the first constitution.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ended the Revolutionary War