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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. -
Boston Massacre
Pre-revolutionary incident, British soldiers were quartered in the city firing into a mob. Put up new taxes on the American colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
Also known as the Coercive Acts. It was to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Caused the outbreak in 1775. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons, then they ran into untrained militia. The ragtag army defeated 700 British soldiers. The British wanted their independence so they fought for it. -
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American Revolution
Grew from growing tensions between Great Britain and the colonial government.It gave England complete control of the thirteen colonies. -
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second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
Formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson to declare freedom for the thirteen colonies. -
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First Continental Congress
The delegates from the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in philadelphia.It was made to organize colonial resistance to parlements coercive act.
