The road to revolution

  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan

    The Albany Plan was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
  • french and Indian war

    french and Indian war

    pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
  • proclamation of 1763

    proclamation of 1763

    prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.
  • quartering act

    quartering act

    American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest
  • 1st continental congress

    1st continental congress

    meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord

    he first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War