Revolution

Events leading up to the American Revolution

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  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union
    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 45) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.

  • Paxton Boys

    Paxton Boys
    The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    No Colonial settlement west of the Appalachians Mountains.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act required Colonist to purchase special ships paper for every legal document, license, newspapers, pamphlet, and almanac, and imposed "Stamp duties" on packages of playing cards and dice.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

    Repeal of Stamp Act
    In March 1766, parliament repealed the Stamp Act; but on the same day, to make its power clear, parliament issued the Declaratory Act.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Halved the duty (tax) on foreign-made molasses in the hopes colonists would stop pay a lower tax rather than risk arrest by smuggling.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    was a pre-revolutionary incident that occurred on March 5, 1770. British soldiers, who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians in the Boston Massacre.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Parliament passed the Tea Act, which was created to help struggling English Tea Companies.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    In 1774, Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the series Acts which:
    - shut down Boston Harbor
    - Another, the Quartering Act, authorized Britain to house soldiers in vacant private homes.
    - General Thomas Gage was appointed the new governor of Massachusetts.
    - To keep the peace, he placed Boston under martial law, or rule military forces

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost.