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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War
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The Currency Act is one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.
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The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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Exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
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Name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
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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
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Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an riot
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The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts,
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The Intolerable Acts was the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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Passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
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Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter, and orator well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!
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British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
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Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
