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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe.
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Conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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An act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.
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A name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
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A series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America.
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Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
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A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.
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Designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusets. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.
