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Albany Plan
Plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. -
Stamp Act
Taxed printed paper including legal documents, newspaper, and playing cards. -
Start of the American Revolution
The fight arose from tensions between Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government. -
Boston Massacre
Known as the "Incident on King Street" in which the British army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists didn't want to pay taxes on British tea so the Sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Act
Included closing the port of Boston until colonists paid for the tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party, restricting town meeting in Massachusetts, and allowed for British soldiers to live in private homes. -
First Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the Colonial war effort and moved towards adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord in order to seize hidden weapons. This kicked off the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies, at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states -
End of American Revolution
The war came to an end when General Cornwallis forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later, the Treaty of Paris made it official that America was independent.
