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Albany Plan
a plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. -
French and Indian War
the seven years war, between France and India -
proclamation of 1763
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
law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar -
Stamp Act
an act that taxed news paper and legal commercial documents -
Quartering Act
two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
Townshend Act
taxed good imported to American Colonies -
Boston massacre
a riot in Boston to protest the British troops quarters in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
son of liberty in Boston through a bunch of tea into the Boston Harbor -
intolerable acts
series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies
