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Albany Congress Plan
It was from June 19, 1754, to July 11, 1754. It is a congress in Albany, New York. They avocated a union of the British colonies in North America for their security and defense against the French, foreshadowing their later unification. -
French & Indian War
The French & Indian war also known as the 7 years war began because of a conflict with France and England. It lasted from 1754- 1763. They both wanted control over the Ohio River. Both sides wanted the valley so they could expand their settlements in the area. -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. -
Townshend Acts
A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. They took away rights from the colonists. Taxation without representation -
Boston Massacre
A confrontation where British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots -
Boston Tea Party
Protest by the Sons of Liberty. They threw tons of tea into the harbor causing the British to lose lots of money. They did this because the British taxed the colonists on tea. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest. -
1st continental congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. In reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to take the colonists' military supplies and arrest them.