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Albany Plan of Union
A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. Representatives from seven of the British North America colonies adopted the plan. The plan was never carried out but it was the 1st important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
French and Indian War
Also knownas the seven year war started when France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies. This led to a series of battles and the battles led to the British delcaration of war in 1756 and ended in 1763 -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians. -
Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade on tsugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. The Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources. -
Stamp Act
A new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. That included ship's paper legal documents, licenses, newapapers, other publications, and even playing cards. -
Quartering act of 1765
The Quartering Act outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. It required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Congress seemed at 1st to be an abject failure. Only nine of the colonies sent delegates. Georgia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and the all-important Virginia were not present.The Congress became quickly divided between radicalls and moderates. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Widespread protest in America,the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. A taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
Declaratory Act
A act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, ppaper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob who were throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at a group of British soldiers. One colonist threw a snowball at the soldiers and was shot down, this was known as the "Shot Heard Around the World." -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots, Called the Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams.They boarded 3 ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
British's response to the Boston Tea Party was called the Coercive Acts. Boston Harbor was closed to trade until the owners of the tea were compensated. General Gage was appointed governor of Massachusetts and the intolerable acts made it very clear that anything that happened in Massachusetts could happen anywhere else. -
Quebec Act
An Act for making effectual Provision for the Province of Quebec, in North America. The Quebec Act was designed to extend the boundaries of Quebec and guaranteed religious freedom to Catholic Canadians. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
General Gage sent out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then they seize gunpowder in concord and when word spread about Gage's plan militars prepared to confront British. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation.