The Road to Revolution

  • albany plan

    albany plan
    a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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    french and Indian war

    the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries, as well as by American Indian allies.
  • proclamation of 1763

    proclamation of 1763
    issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
  • sugar act

    sugar act
    imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial evasion.
  • stamp act

    stamp act
    a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper
  • Quartering Acts

    Quartering Acts
    a law where british soldiers were allowed to stay in your house for no cost
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    Townshend act

    series of British Acts of Parliament passed relating to the British in North America
  • boston massacre

    boston massacre
    british Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party
    a group of colonists dressed up as natives and went on to a ship and through barrels of tea in the harbor
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts
    punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
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    1st continental congress

    meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord
    first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.