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British Board of Trade called a meeting of seven of the northern colonies at Albany. The meeting was to discuss the problems of colonial trade and attacks by the French and Native American allies. A plan to place British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
War between France and the British Colonies.
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Britain began to deal more firmly with its colonies. Restrictive trading acts were expanded and enforced
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Law required the use o tax stamps on all legal documents on certain business agreements and on newspapers
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Nine colonies sent delegates to a meeting in New York where they prepared a strong protest. They declared and affirmed that they were entitled to the rights and liberties of all British dubjects.
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British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd, killing five, in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre -
Organized resistance was carried on through committees of correspondence, a group formed by Samuel Adams
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three ships were raided and their cargo was dumped into the sea to protest the British tea trade.
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A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Parliament passed another se of law, this time to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston. Sent a Declaration of Rights, protesting Britain's colonial policies, to King George III.
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The battles of Lexington and Concord sparked the revolution, fought three week before that Second Continental Congress.
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Met in Philadelphia, became the nations first national government. the British government continued to refuse to compromise, let alone reverse, its colonial policies. It reacted to the Declaration of Rights as it had to other expressions of colonial discontent with even stricter and more repressive measures.
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An act of the Second Continental Congress declaring the Thirteen Colonies to be independent of the British Empire. Passed on July second. Written by Richard Henry Lee
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First system to declare that all people were created equally, and endowed certain unalienable rights. the thirteen colonies became free and independent states. Written by Richard Henry Lee.
