Revolutionary War timeline activity (N.W. & S.H.)

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  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union

    Provied for an intercolonial government and a system for recruiting troops and collecting from the various colonies for their common defense.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Fourth and most decisive war (last war).
  • George III takes throne

    George III takes throne

    He and the Whigs pursued a colonial policy aimed at solving British's domestic financial probles.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Required the colonists to provide food and ling quartes for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Enacted by Parliament required that revanue stamps be placed on most printed paper in the colonies: legal documents, newspapers pamphlets and advertisements.
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    Representatives from a colonies resoluted that only their own elected reps. had the legal authority to approve taxes.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Parliament enacted new duties to be collected on colonial imports of tea, glass, and paper.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A crowd of colonists harassed the guards near the custom house. The guards fiered into the crowd killing five people.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A grouup of Bostonians disquired themselves as Native American boared the British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Determined how the colonies should react to what, from their viewpoint, seemed to pose an alarming threat to their rights and restore.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    The british government enacted a series of punitive acts together with a seperate act dealing with the Quebec Act.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    A law organizing the Canadian lands gaind from France.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Divided between one group of delegates.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    By Jefferson, listed specific grievances against George III's government and also expressed the basic principles that justified revolution.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    Congress modified Dickinson's plan to protect the power of the individual states.