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French & Indain War
The French were trying to claim all the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River as their own and the British did not want them to have it. -
Albany Plan Of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax on the colonies levied by Parliament. It required that a stamp be affixed to all commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets and almanacs. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 was intended to help the British defray the cost of maintaining troops in America. The Act required that the colonists had to supply British troops with food,munitions and barracks. -
Townshend Acts
These acts placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colonies form other countries, as well as allowing blank search warrants called "Wits of Assistance," and revoked the privilege of being tried by Juries. -
Boston Massacre
Shooting of five American colonists by British troops on March 5, 1770. One person, an African-American man named Crispus Attacks, was killed -
Boston Tea Party
Two-hundred people dressed as Mohawk Indians took part in the dumping of the tea. When they boarded the ships they dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
They were meant to punish the colony of Massachusetts for destroying the tea that belonged to east India. Because of the Boston Tea Party and Massachusetts couldnt repay India for the tea. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress appointed five men to draft a Declaration of Independence. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from all thirteen colonies met in 1774 in Philadelphia to discuss responses to increased British oppression. This convention, the First Continental Congress, formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen -
Declaration Of Independence
Colonists declared their independence from Great Britian. -
Articles of Confederation
This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect.
