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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. British Board of Trade called a meeting of seven of the northern colonies at Albany. Main purpose was to discuss problems of colonial trade. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies. It put us in debt. -
George III becomes king of Great Britain
In his accession speech to Parliament, the 22-year-old monarch played down his Hanoverian connections. “Born and educated in this country,” he said, “I glory in the name of Britain. George III desired to be a strong ruler and wanted to influence government policy. The king used patronage (his personal power to appoint individuals to key positions in the government and the military) and his immense, personal prestige to influence government policy. -
Stamp act
Law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspaper. was repealed because of Stamp act congress -
Stamp act congress
claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists. -
Boston massacre
hich British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were, prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. Dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts
known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. ... Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20th -
First Continental Congress
the First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. One of the Congress's first decisions was to endorse the Suffolk Resolves passed in Suffolk County, Massachusetts -
Lexington of Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. The Congress appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army, and authorized the raising of the army through conscription. -
Resolution of Independence
was an act of the Second Continental Congress declaring the Thirteen Colonies to be independent of the British Empire. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia first proposed it on June 7, 1776. It is the earliest form and draft of the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Declaration of Independence announced the United States' independence from Britain.
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