Unit 11.2 American Revolution

War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley (1754-1763)

• French Revolution

• King Philip's War

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13th colonies for trade, military and other purposes

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Continental Congress

• Bostonian Plan

• Albany Plan of Union

Law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

• Navigation Acts

An act that raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown.  It also increased the duty o foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Coercive Acts

Parliament placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies

• Navigation Acts

• Coercive Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

Tax on items produced in Britain and sold in the colonies, including paper, glass, lead, paint, and tea

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Navigation Acts

• Coercive Acts

A colonial network of passing information throughout the colonies

• Committees of Correspondence 1772

• Intolerable Acts

• Albany Plan of Union

• First Continental Congress

The series of harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance; closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea; forced Bostonians to shelter soldiers in their own homes

• Navigation Acts

• Townshend Act

• Coercive Acts

• Stamp Act

First battles of the Revolutionary War

• Lexington & Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Breed's Hill

• New York City

A document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain

• Albany Plan of Union

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Magna Carta