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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
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French and Indian War
A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was then underway in Europe. -
Proclamation of 1763
Conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
Quartering Act
A name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
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Townshend Acts
A series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. -
Boston Massacre
Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
Designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. -
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1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusets. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.
