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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan was a plan to place the British North American under a more centralized government. The Albany Plan was the first important proposal to concieve the colonies -
French & Indian War
An imperial struggle between Britain and France, When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies several battles led to the official war. The war ended in 1763 -
Proclamation of 1763
Was issued after the end of The French & Indian war to acquire French territory in North America -
Sugar Act
Colonial Merchants were forced to pay three pences per gallon on the importationn of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
A tax put in place for the American colonist to pay on every piece of printed material. The Stamp Act lead to organized protest which helped gainn tactical experience as well as patterens of resistance -
Quartering Act of 1765
Requiired colonist to house British soldiers in barracks that the colonies had to provide and if need be inns, livery stables and houses. This lead to the New York Restraining Act of 1767 which prohibits the signing of any legislation util the quartering act is resolved -
Stamp Act Congress
Also called the First Congress of the American Colonies meet between Oct 7- 25. They met to consider the -
Declaratory Act
An act passed to affirm irs power to legislate the colonies. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Repealing the Stamp Act was first major retreat by the British in the face of colonial American resistance -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed to impose duties glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into colonies -
Boston Massacre
A Street fight that occured between colonist and british soldiers in which several colonist were killed. This was a launching point for the revolutionary war -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Quebec Act
An act from the parliment of Britian to set procedures to govern the providance of Quebec. -
Intolerable Acts
four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance which establishing a new administration -
First Continental Congress
Running through Oct 26, it was a meeting of delegates between all but one of the 13 colonies to respond to new taxes -
Battle at Lexington & Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
The Treaty of Paris
Negotiations between the United States and Great Britian that ended the Revolutionary War. This Treaty recognized the United States as it's own independant country
