Taxation and Mercantilism: Belief in the benefits of profitable trading. (1750-1800)

By alliemeadows

  • Albany Plan for the Union

    It was suggested by Benjamin Franklin. It was a plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. It fell through because the colonies were afraid of losing their own self government. The British also dropped the plan because they wanted to make the management of the colonies simple.

  • French and Indian War

    The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    It prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachian mountains due to Native Americans.

  • Quartering Act

    British soldiers are to find room/board in the American colonies. The act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.

  • Stamp Act

    A direct tax. It required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.

  • Declaratory Act

    It was a measure issued by British Parliament asserted its authority to make laws binding the colonists “in all cases whatsoever” including the right to tax.

  • Townshend Acts

    A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. They placed new taxes and took away some of the colonists freedom.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred when British soldiers in Boston opened fired on a group of American colonists killing 5 men.

  • Boston Tea Party

    It was a political protest that occurred at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.

  • Tea Act

    Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The final straw of a series of taxes and policies imposed by Britain on American colonies.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    Met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.

  • Intolerable Acts

    These acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    These battles were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    John Dickinson submitted petition trying to avoid war with Britain during the American Revolution. Colonists pledged their loyalty to Britain and asserted their rights as British citizens.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    How would the colonist meet the military threat of the British. It was agreed that a Continental Army would be created.

  • Declaration of Independence

    It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.

  • Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

    Common sense advocated independence for American colonies from Britain. It encouraged common people in the colonies to fight for egalitarian government.

  • Articles of Confederation

    It served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the U.S. after it declared independence from Great Britain.

  • Treaty of Paris- Revolutionary War

    Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary war. It was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the USA.