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The Albany Congress
The purpose was to try and help support the people fighting in the French and to form an alliance based on Benjamin Franklin's idea. No one really liked it so they reassembled the Articles of Confederation. ENDED: JULY 11,1754 -
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French and Indian War
The war started between the French and the British. The colonies got themselves ready for a fight and they fought the French and Indians to defend themselves. The war lasted for 7 years -
The Proclamation of 1763
The French and Indian war just ended and everyone was happy! Then the king said no exploring the new land. That put a damper on things, but the colonies didn't listen and explored anyway. -
The Sugar Act
They raised the tax on foreign goods like sugar, certain kinds of wines and rums, and coffee. This also meant to French wines and rum. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act of 1763 was an attempt to make currency in the United States uniform and legal. It was also an attempt to break away from British currency. -
The Stamp Act
This act forced the people to pay for anything made of paper, but with a higher cost. IN order to make sure that they bought official paper from Britain, there was a stamp on it. This tax also was to help pay for the French and Indian war. The people were mad because it was Britain's war, not theirs, so they threw riots. -
The Quartering Act of 1765
This act forced the people to give shelter for the soldiers that came around. You would need to feed them, give them bedding, salt, and liquor. The people didn't like this act because that forced them to use their private land. The people reacted by throwing strikes, saying no to the soldiers, and refusing to do anything. -
The Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions — 1765
The act of taxing all paper materials. They said it was from the tax stamp, but it didn't end to well. -
The Declaratory Act
This act made sure that the colonists wouldn't make their own laws. They didn't want them to have their own government so they banned it. -
The Townshend Acts
It was placed on wine, tea, paper, glass, and lead brought into the colony. The British repealed the act except for the tax on tea. -
The Boston Massacre
Massachusetts minutemen and British soldiers are in Boston. They start arguing and taunting the British and they throw snowballs at a British soldier, and it sounds like a gun shot. It's called the 'shot heard round the world". The war begins... -
The Tea Act
British started taxing all the tea, and it was beginning to add up, The people got mad and rebelled. The main people who did this were the Sons of Liberty. -
Boston Tea Party
After taxes were continued to be in effect on tea, the colonists decided they would dump 1000's of pounds of tea in the Boston Harbor. The groups name was the Son's of Liberty. -
The Intolerable Acts
They were pressed with heaver taxes than before. The reason for that was to punish the colonies. -
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First Continental Congress
Someone from each colony came together and talked. They talked about the current situation with Britain including the Intolerable Acts, which the British Parliament had imposed on Boston as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They agreed on a boycott of British goods. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
In this speech, he said how Britain weren't treating them fairly at all. He said all their ways of trying to bring peace have failed and how the only way was to go to war with Britain. This speech help start the war. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
It's said that some people in NC gathered and made a declaration of independence from Britain. Some people claimed to sign it, but no one knows because it burned in a fire in 1800. -
Washington
George Washington becomes head of the Continental Army -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's Common Sense is published -
Halifax Resolves
This was a meeting that took one step further and declared NC's independence from the crown. -
the declaration of independence
Congress adapts the Declaration of Independence in the morning at Philadelphia. John Dunlap prints the Declaration of Independence into 24 copies. There are two in the Library of Congress. One of these copies was Washington’s personal copy.
