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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War.
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It exacyed revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers
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Forbid colonial settlement beyond the line of the Appalachian Mountains. The act also created the provinces of Quebec, West Florida, and East Florida. The proclamation was largely ineffective in preventing western settlement, and served only to anger both settlers and the political elite who had invested in western land speculation.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax
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Act that provided housing for the British
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First gathering of several congressman to devise a plan against taxation without representation
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Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.
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AN ACT for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain.
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Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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POlitical protest by the ''Sons of Liberty'' in Boston
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Series of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party. They were passed to punish the Massachussets Colonists.
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a law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec.
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kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.
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A meeting between the colonies except for one early int he American revolution.
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Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States
