Drew Sauvey

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/28/1755	The French and Indian War	The Native Americans and the French fought against Great Britain for more territory and power. The war ended up lasting for seven years and in the end, they signed a peace treaty and the french gave Canada to Great Britain. The British now controlled the colonies, and they began taxing them more which mad the colonists mad.
10/27/1763	Proclamation of 1763	King George ordered the British goverment to draw a line down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains and told settlers to stay east of the line and have the indians stay west of the line because they kept killing each other. The settlers became mad and argued that most of the land on the east side of the Appalachian Mountains was already settled, but the British government ignored them.
10/28/1765	The Stamp Act	The Stamp Act required all colonists to buy a stamp for all paper products such as newspapers, wills, licenses, and playing cards. This upset the colonists because they had to pay higher taxes and the fact that the colonists had no representatives in Parliament made it unfair because they had no say in the laws.
11/29/1765	The Quartering Act	This law ordered colonial assemblies to provide British troops with quarters, or housing. The colonists were also supposed to give them things like cooking utensils, cider, and salt. The colonists got made because providing for them costed money and New Yorkers thought they shouldn't be paying for them because they took up space and did nothing.
10/31/1767	Townshend Acts	Charles Townshend had a challenge with taxing the colonies and believed that their bad behavior made it important to have an army. So in 1767, he passed the Townshend Acts which placed a tax on certain goods to pay for the army. This lead to the revolution because they saw that the Townshend duties were taxes in disguise and were determined not to pay taxes that their assemblies didn't vote on.
03/05/1770	Boston Massacre	A noisy mob began throwing rocks and ice balls at troops guarding the Boston Customs House. Then, a brawl broke out between soldiers and colonists in Boston, which left five bostonians dead and ten injured. This led to the revolution becuase patriots saw the Boston Massacre as proof that the British should pull out all of their troops from the colonies.
10/31/1773	Tea Act	The Tea Act was Lord North's attempt to rescue the British East India Company. It also lowered the cost of tea that was sold by them in the colonies, but Lord North taxed the colonists without their consent. This led to the revolution because colonists saw the tea act as another attempt to tax them without their consent.
12/06/1773	The Boston Tea Party	On the night of December 6, 1773, colonists dressed up as Native Americans boarded three ships, took all the tea out of the chests, and dumped them all overboard because they saw the Tea Act as another attemp to tax them without their consent. This led to the revolution because even though the patriots were happy, the British were mad and this led them to pass the Intorable Acts.
08/28/1774	Intolerable Acts	The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party. The three parts were that the Boston Harbor was closed to all shipping until the tea was paid for, the government of Massachusetts was placed firmly under British control, and British soldiers who were accused of murder would be tried in England. This led to the revolution becuase the colonies began to unite together and form the First Continental Congress.
09/01/1774	The First Continental Congress	The First Continental Congress formed and sent a respectful message to the King to consider their complaints and rights. They also called for the colonists to have a new boycott of British goods until Parliament repealed the Intolerable acts. This led to the revolution becuase colonies began forming militias to enforce the boycott.