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The Albany Congess
The purposes of the Albany Congress were twofold; to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the Frend, and to form a colonial alliance baed on a design by Benjamin Franklin. -
The French & Indian War (The Seven Years War)
1756-1763
The final Colonial War (1689-1763) was the French and the Indian War, which is the name given to the American theater of a massive conflict involving Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden called the Seven Years War. The conflict was played out in Europe, India, and North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation, in effect closed off the frontier to colobial expansion. The King and his souncil presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them fro their lands as they expanded wesward. -
The Suger Act (The American Revenue Act of 1764)
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenviller took measures that the duty be strictly enforeced. The act also listed more foregin goods to be taxed including sudar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. -
The Quartering Act of 1765
An Act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's domonions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better paymeny of the army and their quarters. -
The Bostoon Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Serveral colonist were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers and rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Gaspee Affair
In June of 1772, a dramatic event was to demonstrate the severity of crisis. A Lieutenant Williamd Duddington, of Her Majesty's Ship Gaspee, was charged with patrolling the waters of Narragansett Bay, of Rhode Island -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company with was floundering fincially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
The Boston Tes Party
Governor Thomas Hutchinson allowed three ships carrying tea to enter Boston Habor. Before the tax could be collected, Bostonians took action. One cold December night, radical townspeople stormed the shipd and tossed 342 chest of tes into the water. Disguised as native Americans, the offenders could not be identified. -
The Association (prohibition of trade with Great Britain)
(Articles of Association, 1774)
The Association was a universal prohibition of trade with Great Britain. Though it made a handful of exceptions, it prohibited import, consumption, and export of goods with England. Unlike most of the individual associations, it established citizen committees to enforce the act throught the colonies.
