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French and Indian War
Also known as the seven years war, was a war fought between britain and france. The indians fought alongside the french.
They were fighting for control over North America. -
Albany Plan of Union
Was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. It was the first important proposal for the colonies but was never carried out. -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Native americans who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
A proclamation from king George III that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. He was hoping to appease the natives against him. -
Sugar Act
Or The American Revenue Act, merchants were required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses and sugar. -
Currency Act
They gained control of printing and use of colonial money. -
Stamp Act
The tax was imposed on all American colonists. they had to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
It provided British soldiers with any accommodations and housing they needed. They also had to give them food. -
Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
It was a secret society. they formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Declaratory Act
It repealed the Stamp Act while also passing the Declaratory Act. It claimed that Britain had the right to tax the American colonies. -
Townshend Act
Named after Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect taxes from the Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston by colonists toward British troops in the city which made them fire at the colonists,killing five people. -
Tea Act
They put a tax on tea. Meant to help the financially struggling British East India Company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
A reaction to the Tea Act. It was a raid on British ships in Boston Harbor where colonists threw tea crates overboard. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
It was a series of British measures meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Quebec Act
It gave French Canadians complete religious freedoms and restored the French form of civil law. -
1st Continental Congress
Was formed to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia were involved. -
Second Continental Congress
It succeeded the First Continental Congress. It managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
A speech he wrote to the Second Virginia Convention. It was urging the American colonies to revolt against England. -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The first great battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists were forced to retreat once they ran out of gunpowder. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
It the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
