Colonies Rebel

By rmstotz
  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union

    Plan to reunite the colonies but it got rejected because i9t gave to much power to an assembly made up of representatives from all thirteen colonies.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Started as a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
  • George III becomes king of Great Britain

    George III becomes king of Great Britain

    Determined to deal firmly with the American colonies.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Imposed the first direct tax on colonists
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    First meeting organized by the colonies to protest King Georges actions.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • Coercive Acts

    Coercive Acts

    Called the Intolerable Acts
  • Commitees of Correspondence

    Commitees of Correspondence

    Urging resistace to the British
  • First Continentalo Congress

    First Continentalo Congress

    Debated what do in arelqtionship it Great Britain
  • Lexington and CConcord

    Lexington and CConcord

    First blow in the revolutionary war
  • Second COntinental Congress

    Second COntinental Congress

    Servd as acting Gov
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Congress approved the resolution and turned it into the Declaration of Independence
  • Resolution of Independence

    Resolution of Independence

    Later became the declaration of indepeedence