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Abany Plan of Union
The king got mad about the way people were acting. They started working harder and kept getting tired faster. The colonist kept getting mad about all the rules. -
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French & Indian War
The French & British fought.
They faught because they got mad when the British settlers started moving on the Frend & Indians land.
The british won the war and got Frances land. -
Washington's Defeat at Ft. Duquense/Nessasity
The French abandoned and destroyed Fort Duquense. The fort with get overruned by Brigadier General John Forbes's force of 5,000 men. Now it is renamed "pittsburgh". -
Treaty of Paris
Ending the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America.Britain gained all territory east of the Mississippi River; Spain kept territory west of the Mississippi, but exchanged East and West Florida for Cuba. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was passed after an a Native American, Pontiac and hisforces attacked forts along the frontier. The British did not want another war so they puta limit on how far the colonists could move west. This act drew a line going north to south down the Appalachian mountains and said the colonists could not pass the linewithout permission of the British. -
Sugar Act
This act put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar. It also increasedtaxes on coffee, indigo, and certain wines. Rum and French wines could not be imported. Thesetaxes were raised without the consent of the colonists. -
Stamp Act
he stamp act was the first British tax on American Colonists.Every newspaper, pamphlet, and any other public and legal document had to have a stamp of british seal on it. -
Quarting Act
This act said that colonial assembly was supposed toprovide the basic needs for soldiers in their borders. Items that they needed to supplywere bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, alcohol, cider, and candles. Later the act saidthat the colonists need to give the soldiers taverns and unocupie -
Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied -
Daughters of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty performed equally important functions. Once nonimportation became the decided course of action, there was a natural textile shortage -
Declaratory Act
This act was passed when they repealed the stampact. The declaratory act stated that parliament could make whatever law the wanted onthe American Colonies. -
Townshend Act
One of the townshend acts was the Revenue act. The Revenue act statedthat there would be taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.Writs of assistance were warrants that gave officers the right to enteranyplace to look for evidence of smuggling. -
Boston Massacre
a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and hit his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Tea Act
this act said that American colonists could not buy tea unless itcame from the East India Company.Thislowered the price for tea but the colonists were made that they could not buy from anyone else. -
Committee of Corospondance
The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Sons of Liberty
dressed as Mohawk Indians, raided three British ships, in Boston harbor and dumped 342 containers of tea into the water. -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised, 9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Quebec Act
It was passed to try to resolve the problem of making the colony a British colony and tried tobuild a French-Canadian loyalty to Britain. It also extended the borders of Quebec. -
First Continetal Congress
Colonial delegates meet to agreements to the Intolerable Acts. -
Coercive Act
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen -
Second Continetal Congress
The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Independence Hall on May 10, 1775, after the Battles of Concord and Lexington had been fought. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary war. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
On June 11, Congress recessed for three weeks. During this period the "Committee of Five" John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson, drafted the Declaration of Independence.
