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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
french and Indian war
pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France -
proclamation of 1763
prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia -
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
American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food -
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
placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists -
Boston massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed -
Boston tea party
political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
intolerable acts
punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest -
1st continental congress
meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies -
Lexington and concord
he first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
