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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions. -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan to put British North American Colonies under a more centrilized government. The Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
Proclamation of 1763
the proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. It was issued by King George III. -
Sugar Act
The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. Purpose was reduce the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon -
Stamp Act
exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents It helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown.. -
Quatering Act of 1765
Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment. -
Stamp Act congress
British tightened their grip on the American colonies by passing laws and taxes the colonists hated. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act was a measure issued by British Parliament asserting its authority to make laws binding the colonists “in all cases whatsoever” including the right to tax. The Declaratory Act was a reaction of British Parliament to the failure of the as they did not want to give up on the principle of imperial taxation asserting its legal right to tax colonies. -
Townshend Act
ownshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Quebec Act
An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America. -
first continental congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of it 13 colonies -
Battle of Lecington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Wikipedia
