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Albany Plan of Union
Was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. It was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
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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 war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America.
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Proclamation of 1763
Mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.
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Quartering Act of 1765
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.
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Stamp Act
Tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains.
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Stamp Act Congress
First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City.the meeting of the First Congress was important because representatives from the colonies were united in a mutual cause.
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Repeal of the Stamp Act
The colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit.
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Declaratory Act
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 Stamp Act as they did not want to give up on the principle of imperial taxation asserting its legal right to tax colonies.
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Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution.
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Boston Massacre
Was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War.
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Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.
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Intolerable Acts
Four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance. The oppressive measures became the justification for convening the First Continental Congress later in 1774.
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Quebec Act
A law that recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec. The British Crown granted land to the French in Quebec that was clearly desired by the American colonists. The extension of tolerance to Catholics was viewed as a hostile act by predominantly Protestant America.
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First Continental Congress
Served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
A military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). This was the first battle in the American Revolutionary War.
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Treaty of Paris
Ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. Also granted the U.S. significant western territory.
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