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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a government that the same party controls the white house and the same party controls both parties of congress. -
Stamp Act
Taxed printed paper, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. -
Start of American Revolution
British soldiers and American patriots started the war with battles at Lexington and Massachusetts. -
Boston Massacre
It is where British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob of people. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. The colonist dressed up like Indians and snuck on board the British ship and threw all the tea in the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The parliament passed another set of laws to punish the colonist for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere. -
Intolerable acts
It is where very bad laws were passed by the British Parliament. -
Second Continental Congress
The British government refused compromise its colonial policies. They met in Philadelphia. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
It was the very first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to enforce Americans independence from Britain.He used John Locke’s theory of natural rights because he thought that the British government was wanting natural equality. -
End of the American Revolution
After the French helped the Continental Army, the British surrender and then the Americans won their independence.