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Albany Plan of Union
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Washington's Defeat at Ft. Necessity
Result: French and Indian victory -
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French and Indian Wae
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Washingtons defeat at FT.Duquences
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The Sugar Act
What: The act lowered the tsx on molasses imported by the colonist. Why: Hoping to end smuggling How the colonist reacted: Smuggling keeps constant and James Otiss says no parts of parliment can be taxed -
Stamp Act
What: Act taxing ALL printed material (such as legal documents, newspapers, and playing card How colonist reacted: Stamp Act congress -
Quartering Act
what: Act requiring colonist to lodge and feed brtish soliders Reaction: This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses -
Sons of liberty
what: Formed by Samuel Adams of Boston; organization which took the streets to protest the stamp act how the colonies reacted -
Daughters of liberty
What: colonial women form this organization to protest the Townshend Act. why: to rebel against britisht axes by making home goods instead of buying them from the British -
Declaratory Act
what: Act which said that parliment had the right to make laws and tax the colonies how the colonist reacted: -
Boston Massecre
what: teh Boston massecre, known as the incident on march 5, 1770, in which britisch army killed five male cilvilians and injured six others. how colonist reacted: a mob formed around a british sentry, who was subjected to verbal threats and thrown objects. -
Committee of Corespondence
what: the committee of corespondence were shadow governments organized by the patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution -
Boston Tea Party
what: protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded british ships and dumped tea into boston harbor in 1773 how colonist reacted: parliment responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, or Intolerble Acts, which among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachutes and closed boston commerce. -
Coercive Acts
what: this series of law were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts colonist pay for its resistance/punishment for Boston Tea Party -
Qubec Act
what: the Quebec Act of 1774, was formally known as the British North America(quebec) Act 1774, was an act of the Parliment of Great Britain(citaion 14 Geo. III 83) -
First Continental Congress
what: the Firt Continental Congress was a meeting of dedlegates from thwelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to
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Battle of Lexington and concord
what The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
why: the battle arked the outbrek of open armed conflict between the kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
Second Continental Congress
what: the Second Continental Congress was a convetion of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. -
Battle at Bunker Hill
what: the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on june 17, 1775, during the Seige of Boston in the early stages of the American Revloutionary War. -
Signing the Declaration of Independence
what: The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the Thirteen American Colonies, then at war with Great Britain , reguarded themselves as thirteen newly independent soverign states, and no longer a part of the British empire. -
Townshend Act
What: Acts which taxed imported goods into the colonies such as glass, tea, lead colonist react: widespred 2 years later -
Treaty of Paris
what: the treaty of paris negotiated negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. -
Stamp Act Congress
What: Form to protest against stamp act; nine colonies met and drafted a petition to king gerge III -
Proclamation of 1763
what: Prohibited colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. why:Stopping western settlement provided several advatages for britain. It allowed the British government, not the colonist, to control westward movement. How the colonist reacted: It set off a chain of events that enraged the American colonist and suprised British Authorities.
