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People from the 7 colonies met with Albany in New York. Purpose was to support the Iroquois
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The war was fought between the colonies British and New France.
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Caused the proclamation of 1763 to be made by king George 3
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Issued by king George 3 following great britains acquisition.
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Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire.
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The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to conduct trade. extended the 1751 Act to all of the British colonies of North America.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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Patrick Henry, who was a new member to the House of Burgesses undertook a radical move against the authority of Parliament.
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with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty's Person and Government,
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Thomas Jefferson was part of a Virginia delegation that planned to ask the Second Continental Congress to sever its ties from Great Britain.
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Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies.
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some sixty merchants signed the Boston Non-Importation Agreement in opposition to Parliament’s ongoing attempts to levy taxes on the American colonies.
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Was a street fight of throwing snowballs and stones and sticks
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The First Blow for Freedom Shortly before midnight on June 9, 1772, approximately sixty armed men from Providence, Rhode Island
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It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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Not only had the Crown attempted to tax the colonies on several occasions, but two taxes were still being collected
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Boston Port Act-
Administration of Justice Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Quartering Act of 1774
Quebec Act
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. -
was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act,
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All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.
