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Albany Congress
It was a plan by the 13 colonies to create a unified government. They were going to create this as a defense against the British. -
French and Indian War
A 7-year war between France and Great Britain over conflicts of land in the "New World." This is because the French expanded into the Ohio Valley and began to move in what was considered British land. The French ended up winning over the Native Americans, who helped them fight in the war. Ultimately, the british won the war, with the signing of the treaty of Paris. America ended up gaining Canadian territory and Florida from spain. -
Proclamation of 1763
This act prohibited Americans from settling land west of the Appalachian mountains, where there was land that the Americans had just won through the 7-year war or French and Indian war. -
sugar, stamp, quartering, townshend acts
After the French and Indian war, that was fought in America, Great Britain thought it was only fair that the colonies get more taxes to try to pay for the war they fought. -
Boston Massacre
There was a protest/riot against all the taxes at a Britsh official's house. The mob was throwing snowballs and rocks and other such things. The British didn't give an order to shoot, but the mob made some of the soldiers feel threatened, and they opened fire on the crowd, killing 5 people. -
Boston Tea Party
In an attempt to get the British to repeal some of their acts and taxes, colonist dressed up like Indians and threw 432 chests of tea into the Boston harbour. In today's currency that's about 4 million dollars worth of tea. it all was in protest. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. It forced people to let soldiers live in their homes when ordered, closed ports, and forced people to be juried by Britains, not themselves. -
1st continental congress
The first meeting of all 13 colonies to discuss what to do about the King, and all the problems going on in the colonies. They decided to not use British goods in order to try to get Britain to repeal the acts -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the revolutionary war. The colonist were collecting guns or smuggling non british good, and the british was trying to march and sieze all of that. The colonist intervened, and no one knows which side it was, but there was a first shot that started the whole fighting.