Taxation and Mercantilism:is a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.
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The French and Indian War
Pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies -
Albany Plan for the Union
Was a plan to unify the government for the 13 colonies was suggested by Benjamin Franklin -
Proclamation
Sign at the end of the French and Indian war told settlers not to go farther west -
Quartering Act
Making American colonies to provide housing and food for British soldiers -
Stamp Act
A tax put on paper goods such as newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Declaratory Act
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain -
Townshend Acts
placed new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under the harassment by a mob -
Tea Act
Put a tax on tea -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts
Were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party -
1st Continental Congress
All the colonies met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts -
2nd continental congress
managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the Revolutionary War -
Olive Branch Petition
final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution July -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
He tried to tell people it would be best if we were independent for Britain -
Declaration of Independence
Statement adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress meeting in PA. -
Treaty of Paris-Revolutionary War
This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War