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Albany Plan of Union
Was made to create a unified Government -
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French/Indian War
The war started because both France and England wanted to colonize the land near the ohio river valley, near what today is present day Pittsburgh,PA. -
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Writs of Assistance
To enforce trade and Navigation Laws -
Pontiac's War
The British treated the Native Americans unfairly in comparison to how they treated the French. The war affected every Native from the Illinois Country to the Ohio Country. The Natives were mad at the British rules and policies that they had established after the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was made by Great Britain, in attempt to organize their American Empire and end the French and Indian War. The Proclamation was also established in attempt to stabilize Great Britain´s relationship with the Native Americans through trade, settlement, and land purchases. Great Britain established a new boundary line for settlement. The colonists settled on the Native´s land were forced to move West. This was good for the Natives, but not the Colonists. -
Sugar Act
A revenue act passed by Great Britain -
Currency Act
The Colonists continued to have a currency shortage, therefore stunting their ability to trade with other Colonies and Natives. There were no gold mines or silver mines, and any other forms of currency could only be attained by England. The Colonies felt that there was no alternative. -
Quartering Act
Parliament wanted to save money with the Quartering Act. The law forced colonists to provide housing and food for the British who lived in their towns. They did not purchase houses or food for the British there because they found it highly unnecessary. Why would they build houses for the British protectors, if there were perfectly good colonist houses? -
Stamp Act
To put a tax on paper in order to get the colony out of debt -
Townshend Acts
A law to attract colonists to live in the American Colonies -
Townshend Act
To attract Colonists to live in the American Colonies -
Boston Massacre
The people of Boston were angry at the governor so they were protesting -
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Coercive Acts
It was a series of acts and taxes on the colonist from the British parliament to get money from the colonist to get them out of debt. -
Committees of Correspondence
England began to take control of the governors’ and judges’ salaries, instead of the Colonial Assembly. -
Tea Act
To put a tax on tea because it was a high demand -
Boston Tea Party
Where people protested the imports of tea from the East India Company. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist were angry that the taxes on the tea were rising and the colonist were angy. So they created a plan to dump all the tea off of a ship carrying all the tea. -
Quebec Act
The British wanted to gift the French religious freedom, and restore the French form of Civil Law. They also demolished their temporary government and granted them a permanent administration. -
Restraining Act
The Port of Boston was blockaded 1774, and recent blockades expanded to New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. Great Britain enforced trade routes to only Britain, or the British West Indies. -
Lexington and Concord
Because the British were ordering people to get rid of militia Weapons -
Lexington and Concord
Because the british were giving an order to get rid of all the militias weapons. -
New England Restraining Act
The Colonists were trading with too many other countries and Great Britain wanted to be the Colonies’ main trading source. This is why King George III enforced the restraining act, forcing colonies to only trade with Great Britain. -
Prohibitory Act
The Act was passed as a form of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion in the American Colonies. The decreed a trading block between the colonies so that they would be unable to exchange goods. -
Battle of Quebec
Both the French and British wanted to claim the land by the Ohio River Valley. They were to fight to win over the land. -
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
This document was written in order to inspire the Colonists to declare their independence against Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Policy of Non-Importation
The American Colonists seeked revenge upon Great Britain because they felt as if Great Britain had deprived them of exportation and importation freedom.
