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Causes of the American Revolution

Terms in this set (16)

Navigation Act
1651 - Beginning of series of laws to regulate trade between the 13 colonies
Albany Plan of Union
1754 - Plan by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies for defense against the French
French and Indian War
1754-1763: War between the British and the French over the land in the Ohio River Valley
Proclamation Line (Proclamation of 1763)
Imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that prevented the colonists from moving west
Sugar Act
1764 - Cut the molasses tax in half but added Writs of Assistance & British Admiralty Courts
Stamp Act
1765 - Tax on all legal documents and all paper products
Quartering Act
1765 - Act which said the 13 colonies needed to provide housing and food for the British soldiers protecting them
Boston Massacre
3/5/1770: incident in Boston resulting in 5 colonist being shot by British soldiers
Tea Act
1773 - act to help the British East India Tea Company
Boston Tea Party
12/16/1773: incident in Boston led by the Sons of Liberty to dump tea into the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
1774 - Acts passed by Parliament to force the colony of Massachusetts to pay for tea destroyed 12/16/1773
Quartering Act
1774 - law forcing colonists to house British soldiers in their homes
Quebec Act
1774 - Act that set up a Quebec colony stretching to the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers from Canada
First Continental Congress
1774 - First meeting of 12 colonies to discuss what to do and results in suggestion to train their militias
Second Continental Congress
1775 - 2nd meeting of the colonial representatives to discuss what to do & results in Olive Branch Petition
Battle of Lexington
1775 - "Shot heard around the world."
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