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1754
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 45) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.
1754 - 1763
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War fought at British expense for the American colonies against the French and Native Americans
1760
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Under his rule, Britain deals more firmly with the colonies. Trading restrictions expanded and enforced. Colonists object to these changes.
1765
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. Colonists were NOT happy.
September 5, 1774
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
May, 1775
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Shortly after the Second Continental Congress, George Washington was given command of the Virginia militia and charged with defending the colony’s western frontier, which he did.
May 10, 1775
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Succeeding the First Continental Congress, the Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence.
July 4, 1776
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.