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APUSH The Road To Independence (1750-1781)

Terms in this set (15)

Albany Plan of Union
developed by Ben Franklin; provided for an inter-colonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies defense, it was rejected by many colonies b/c they didn't want to share tax collecting powers
French and Indian War
A war between the French and Indians vs. the British (the first World War)...it put Britain in a lot of war debt and they needed money from the colonists
Proclamation of 1763
forbid settlers for going west of Appalachian mountains but failed b/c settlers had already moved there
Sugar Act/Sugar Act
put taxes on goods
Currency Act
forbade colonists to issue paper money
Townshend Act
taxed goods directly imported from Britain
Committee's of Correspondence
a system throughout the colonies to trade ideas and inform one another of the political mood
Boston Tea Party
colonists dumped British Tea
Intolerable Acts
imposed on the colonists after they dumped the tea
First Continental Congress
addressed colonial grivances towards the king
Battle of Lexington and Concord
British vs. Colonists....war hadn't officially started yet
Olive Branch Petition
"last peace effort" of colonists to British but didn't work
Common Sense
a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging rebellion
Thomas Jefferson
chosen to write the Dec of Ind
Franco-American Alliance
organized by Ben Franklin/ allowed French to fight on side of colonists
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